History BreakTheCutie / WesternAnimation

* ScoobyDooMysteryInc breaks all four at once in the season finale. After Mayor Jones is [[spoiler:revealed to not only have been the Freak Of Crystal Cove and kidnapped Freddy as an infant from his real parents to raise, but now Freddy has dissolved the team to look for his parents. Meanwhile, Shaggy's parents are shipping him to military school, and Velma is on the outs with everyone for keeping Angel Dynamite's identity a secret from them. Daphne is absolutely devastated as Fred had proposed marriage to her in episode 24, but now that's off as Fred seeks to discover who he really is.]]

* Happens to Prince Zuko in ''WesternAnimation/[=~Avatar: The Last Airbender~=]'' '''prior''' to the show's timeline. Flashbacks of younger Zuko portray an idealistic young man with a thirst for knowledge and experience to help him learn to be a good leader and a genuine concern for the welfare of his nation's citizens. True, he's arrogant and brash, but hey he's a teenage boy and ''Royalty''. His naivety results in a serious disagreement with his father that leads to his scarring and banishment. By the time the other characters encounter him he's bitter, angry and obsessed with doing whatever it takes to regain his father's approval. It doesn't help that actions stemming from his inherent "good" side often backfire. Spare Zhao's life? Zhao tries to kill him- several times. Help the little boy bullied by thuggish soldiers? Whole village turns on him because he has to resort to Firebending to do so. Share a moment of introspection with a fellow traveler? Said traveler tries to recruit him, then stalks and attacks him. Offer a bit of compassion to a fellow prisoner? Seems to work, as Katara offers to heal him, then Aang shows up, and Katara runs to him. Well, NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished.

* Happens to Prince Zuko in ''[=~Avatar: The Last Airbender~=]'' '''prior''' to the show's timeline. Flashbacks of younger Zuko portray an idealistic young man with a thirst for knowledge and experience to help him learn to be a good leader and a genuine concern for the welfare of his nation's citizens. True, he's arrogant and brash, but hey he's a teenage boy and ''Royalty''. His naivety results in a serious disagreement with his father that leads to his scarring and banishment. By the time the other characters encounter him he's bitter, angry and obsessed with doing whatever it takes to regain his father's approval. It doesn't help that actions stemming from his inherent "good" side often backfire. Spare Zhao's life? Zhao tries to kill him- several times. Help the little boy bullied by thuggish soldiers? Whole village turns on him because he has to resort to Firebending to do so. Share a moment of introspection with a fellow traveler? Said traveler tries to recruit him, then stalks and attacks him. Offer a bit of compassion to a fellow prisoner? Seems to work, as Katara offers to heal him, then Aang shows up, and Katara runs to him. Well, NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished.

* This is what the first arc of the ''Series/{{X-Men}}'' cartoon was trying to do to Jubilee. The Unspoken {{Backstory}} that her parents had been killed (by assassins looking for the Lees down the street and got lost) and she was in a foster home, then when she'd finally come to terms with THAT, they register her with a front organization for Project Wideawake. So the Sentinels come, after she runs away. Oh, but that doesn't stop the metal monsters from killing her step-parents. It may not get worse, but it doesn't get better quickly.

* In an episode of DextersLaboratory, [=DeeDee=] breaks when she loses her teddy bear, Mr. Fuzzums. Throughout the episode, she is catatonic and only speaks by muttering, "Fuzzum uzzum, uzzum, uzzum fuzzum," etc. Of course, she is fixed by the end of the episode.

* Terra from the animated ''TeenTitans'' started out cracked, then met Slade, who did his best to finish breaking her.
* Nurse Bendy in MoralOrel. The first two seasons play her as a loose, air-headed woman who is commonly used by the men of the town. Her presence in Season 3 would reveal she's pretty much [[ManChild mentally 14]], treats two teddy bears like an actual husband and son, and [[TearJerker starts weeping and screaming when]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext she thinks the teddy husband's trying to have sex with her]]. It is ''not'' played for laughs.

** Also from the same show, in "The Best Night Ever", all the ponies are broken to a certain extent, but none more than Fluttershy, who is of course the super-incredibly-shy one. When the animals at the gardens at the Royal Palace run away from her, she snaps, chasing and screaming at them to love her.

* Dib from InvaderZim,through YMMV. If you count him to be cute and TheWoobie. During the course of the show, he gets laughed at, gets pummeled by his sister (numerous times), gets threatened to be eaten by mechanical stuffed animals, has a water balloon [[BeyondTheImpossible CONTAINING ALL THE WATER ON PLANET EARTH]] dropped on his head, is held over the city cesspool for an entire day, gets thrown into a slowly expanding explosion, [[spoiler:gets put into a LotusEaterMachine and has a wonderful life, until he realizes that it was all a dream,]] gets shot with a gigantic laser gun (albeit using muffins as ammo,) gets laughed at again, gets pummeled by a monkey, and of course, who could forget his LANDING-PAD-SIZED MONSTER OF A HEAD THAT IS ALSO DISTURBINGLY LARGE? Of course... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF9CsPWkR7c he cracks appropriately.]]

* Also from ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', in "The Best Night Ever", all the ponies are broken to a certain extent, but none more than Fluttershy, who is of course the super-incredibly-shy one. When the animals at the gardens at the Royal Palace run away from her, she snaps, chasing and screaming at them to love her.

* Pinkie Pie from ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' in "Party of One" reverts to her depressed straight-haired state seen in "Cutie Mark Chronicles" when she thinks her friends don't like her or her parties anymore.

* Dib from InvaderZim,through YMMV. If you count him to be cute and TheWoobie. During the course of the show, he gets laughed at, gets pummeled by his sister (numerous times), gets threatened to be eaten by mechanical stuffed animals, has a water balloon [[BeyondTheImpossible CONTAINING ALL THE WATER ON PLANET EARTH]] dropped on his head, is held over the city cesspool for an entire day, gets thrown into a slowly expanding explosion, [[spoiler:gets put into a LotusEaterMachine and has a wonderful life, until he realizes that it was all a dream,]] gets shot with a gigantic laser gun (albeit using muffins as ammo,) gets laughed at again, gets pummeled by a monkey, and of course, who could forget his LANDING-PAD-SIZED MONSTER OF A HEAD THAT IS ALSO DISTURBINGLY LARGE? Of course... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF9CsPWkR7c he cracks appropriately.]]

** It happens again when he becomes a "vampire" (actually just a fad of pretending to be a vampire induced by the new ''{{Twilight}}'' movie, but he thinks it's real)

* TheSimpsons arguably subverts this in Dog Of Death. When Burns gets a hold of Bart's friendly, gentle pet dog, he straps the dog to a chair, sets up a machine that holds the dog's eyes open, and forces the dog to watch several images of animal abuse to, as Burns himself put it, turn the dog into "a vicious, soulless killer." However, when Burns sends said dog after Bart, the dog's memories of good times with Bart prompt him to lick Bart's face instead of attacking him. When the other dogs come after Bart, said pet dog [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome growls at the other dogs and scares them off]], only to proceed to lick Bart's face AGAIN. Burns' attempt at breaking the dog's spirit yields, if any change in the dog at all, a result of the dog [[TookALevelInBadass taking a level in badass]] while no longer being on Burns' side in the long run.

* This happens to the title character of ''{{Doug}}'' during the Nickelodeon Christmas special. After his dog, Porkchop, ends up biting Beebe Bluff while she and the other main kids were playing hockey (he was actually trying to save her from the thin ice) and she gets badly injured, poor Porkchop ends up having to be taken to the pound and even has to be put on trial. The day before the trial, Doug remembers about how he got Porkchop for Christmas when he was a year old, and how the previous Christmas, he got him his journal. Then, because of how Porkchop is being treated by everyone in town, he imagines standing at Porkchop's grave, and begins to cry. He really needed a hug in this episode.

* Shifty Dingo from BlinkyBill takes a lot of crap. In the wedding picnic episode, he gets bitten on the leg by Marcia, cries his eyes out, fails at dance steps, cries his eyes out again, breaks his leg while practicing dance steps and his own mother won't let his friends give him flowers to cheer him up. Ouch. In another episode, he saves Marcia with CPR and her reaction? [[FantasticRacism "Yuck kissed by a dingo!"]] and then [[UngratefulBastard she]] [[KickTheDog punches him]] in the face. He frequently gets picked on in multiple episodes and Nutsy is one of the only characters to stand up for him.

* Shifty Dingo from BlinkyBill takes a lot of crap. In the wedding picnic episode, he gets bitten on the leg by Marcia, cries his eyes out, fails at dance steps, cries his eyes out again, breaks his leg while practicing dance steps and his own mother won't let his friends give him flowers to cheer him up. Ouch. In another episode, he saves Marcia with CPR and her reaction? [[FantasticRacism "Yuck kissed by a dingo!"]] and then [[UngratefulBastard she]] [[KickTheDog punches him]] in the face.

* Shifty Dingo from BlinkyBill takes a lot of crap. In the wedding picnic episode, he gets bitten on the leg by Marcia, cries his eyes out, fails at dance steps, cries his eyes out again, breaks his leg while practicing dance steps and his own mother won't let his friends give him flowers to cheer him up. Ouch.

* Shifty Dingo from BlinkyBill takes a lot of crap. The mothers day episode and the apple thieves episode. Hoo boy.

* Shifty Dingo from BlinkyBill takes a lot of crap. The mothers day episode, the wedding picnic episode and the apple thieves episode. Hoo boy.

** On "Summer Belongs To You", the crew is stranded on an island with no resources, and [[spoiler:Phineas]] has a nervous breakdown [[spoiler:because he can't build anything to help them]].

*** That was an earlier episode. She wasn't exactly a Purity Sue back then, [[FridgeBrilliance but she was a lot nicer before then]].

* FamilyGuy usually plays with this as most of the characters go through some of the most horrible incidents that someone can go through. But it's played straight with Lois during the ChristmasEpisode in the earlier seasons. All the presents given to another family? Hey, another family benefits from the charity. House burn down? At least everyones safe. Your turkey is ruined? We can work something out. Out of paper-towels? Oh, snap.
** YMMV about this being either a RoaringRampageOfRevenge or BewareTheNiceOnes, but considering that Lois isn't exactly a PuritySue to begin with, it might not really apply.

* TheSimpsons arguably subverts this in Dog Of Death. When Burns gets a hold of Bart's friendly, gentle pet dog, he straps the dog to a chair, sets up a machine that holds the dog's eyes open, and forces the dog to watch several images of animal abuse to, as Burns himself put it, turn the dog into "a vicious, soulless killer." However, when Burns sends said dog after Bart, the dog's memories of good times with Bart prompt him to lick Bart's face instead of attacking him. When the other dogs come after Bart, said pet dog [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome growls at the other dogs and scares them off]], only to proceed to lick Bart's face AGAIN. Burns' attempt at breaking the dog's spirit yields, if any change in the dog at all, a result of the dog [[TookALevelInBadass taking a level in badass]] while no longer being on Burns' side in the long run.