History BreakTheCutie / WesternAnimation

* Happens to [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeBob]] a lot.

* ''BreakTheCutie/My LittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' does this trope a lot, including Pinkie Pie for starters:
** Pinkie Pie in "Party of One" reverts to her depressed, straight-haired state previously seen in "Cutie Mark Chronicles" when she thinks her friends don't like her or her parties anymore.
** ''All'' of the main characters have a turn at breaking; usually, it happens because the aspect of their lives symbolized by the markings on their flanks has been called into question. This is the root cause of so many pony breakdowns that the fandom has dubbed it "[[SanitySlippage Cutie Mark Failure Insanity Syndrome]]".
*** This is made especially prominent in "The Best Night Ever." All the ponies are broken to a certain extent, but none more than Fluttershy, who is of course [[ShrinkingViolet the super-incredibly-shy one]]. When the animals at the gardens at the Royal Palace subvert her special talent of caring for wildlife by running away from her, [[BerserkButton she snaps]], chasing them, diabolically concocting traps (complete with TwitchyEye, EvilLaughter, and DramaticThunder), and screaming at them to love her.
** Discord ''loves'' doing this (though he admittedly slides between this and CorruptTheCutie). [[spoiler:Twilight is the ''only'' one to escape his , and the fact her friends are brainwashed it's likely he got to her too. Fluttershy manages to ''partly'' avoid it by virtue of being aware and accepting of her faults, but he still brainwashes her anyway.]]
*** Even though Twilight [[spoiler: isn't brainwashed directly, she still gets hit with this. Discord reunites her with her friends ''after'' he's finished breaking them. The result is Twilight being treated like dirt by her beloved TrueCompanions and having no idea what's happening to them. By the time the corrupted Fluttershy verbally assaults her, the poor girl has been broken as well. It gets so bad in the second episode that she turns gray ''without brainwashing''.]]
** Pinkie breaks again in "Baby Cakes", where she [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter suffers all sorts of indignities trying to prove she's responsible enough to look after the Cakes' new foals]]. After Pound Cake (a pegasus) and Pumpkin Cake (a unicorn) start manifesting their respective powers of flight and magic and making even ''more'' mischief, the Element of Laughter herself finally breaks down into hysterical bawling.
** Applejack gets this treatment ''two episodes in a row''. In "The Last Round-up", her inability to win a single blue ribbon or earn any prize money for Ponyville breaks her so hard that she can't face returning to Ponyville since she feels she has let everyone down. In "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000", she is understandably driven to tears by the apparent loss of her and her family's home and vocation.
** Pinkie (again; she seems to get a lot of this) and Rarity are driven to tears by numerous insults from Fluttershy, when the pegasus tries to act more assertive in "Putting Your Hoof Down." Included among these is Fluttershy calling Pinkie "simple," calling Rarity "petty," and saying that the pursuits to which both ponies have dedicated their lives to are useless (coupled with a HoldYourHippogriffs-disguised PrecisionFStrike, [[CrossesTheLineTwice no less]]). Note that neither of them did ''anything'' to deserve this treatment -- they only tried to help Fluttershy and expressed concern about [[TookALevelInJerkass her recent behavior]].
** Fluttershy gets this ''hard'' in ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy Hurricane Fluttershy]]''. In fact, it happens ''three times!'' First is when Rainbow Dash trying to get her to join in making the tornado brings up a pretty brutal bullying incident from her foalhood. Second is when some ponies laugh at her wing speed test, sending her running off as she cries her eyes out. And then, after she gives it her all to improve her performance by training extensively, she takes the test again only to find out that the improvement she's made isn't nearly enough and once more runs off in tears. [[TheWoobie Poor thing...]]
** In "A Canterlot Wedding," the characters all attend the wedding of Princess Cadance and Twilight's older brother, Shining Armor. Sounds completely lighthearted, right? Not after Twilight's hostile confrontation against Cadance at the wedding rehearsal causes Shining Armor to strip her of her "best mare" position and rescind her invitation to the wedding altogether, after which all of her friends and [[PalsWithJesus her idol, Princess Celestia]], follow his lead and coldly turn on her (the point is then driven further home with a DarkReprise sung by Twilight lamenting the loss of both her sister-to-be and her brother). Suddenly, Cadance reappears by Twilight's side, and for a moment it looks like all will be forgiven -- [[spoiler: and then Cadance [[WhamLine claims she'll]] [[ImpliedDeathThreat make Twilight sorry]], [[DownerEnding ends Part 1 of the episode]] by imprisoning Twilight with dark magic, and starts off Part 2 by taunting Twilight with the fact that [[SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere no one will ever hear or come looking for her.]]]]
*** [[spoiler:Cadence herself goes through a phase of this in Part 2, when she believes that she'll never make it to her husband-to-be in time. Twilight snaps her out of it, though.]]
** This is more or less what [[spoiler:King Sombra's LotusEaterMachine]] does to [[spoiler:Twilight Sparkle and Spike]] in "The Crystal Empire: Part 2." It's essentially a fake door that leads to a vision of your worst fears, namely [[spoiler:[[AdultFear being abandoned by the people who care them the most (Princess Celestia and Twilight herself, respectively]]).]]
** Pinkie ''again'' in "Too Many Pinkie Pies". She has a breakdown when the clones she created to spend time with her friends cause trouble for them with their fun-seeking antics. Then she has to endure a test to prove that she is the real one with her very existence on the line.
** The CMC in "One Bad Apple", thanks to bullying by [[TheBully Babs Seed]]. Unlike Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, Babs's bullying is much more serious and brutal. Justified, as this episode was intended to address the serious issue of bullying in RealLife.
--->'''Sweetie Belle:''' Why do I feel like crying?[[note]]And she does, when Babs takes the CMC's clubhouse from them.[[/note]]
** Pinkie ''yet '''again''''' ([[WhatTheHellHero Geez, Hasbro]]) in "Wonderbolts Academy" is driven to a sleepless near-insanity that can't leave the mailbox when she goes a few days without getting a letter from Rainbow Dash and thinks she's forgotten about her.
** The Mane Six in "Magical Mystery Cure". [[spoiler: Twilight inadvertently causes her friends' cutie marks -- and destinies -- to be switched, and her friends are unable to cope with the jobs they now believe they were always meant to be doing. Seeing her friends break down leads Twilight to tears herself, until Spike helps her remember just how important her friends are to her, giving her the spark of inspiration she needed to fix the problem.]]
** Fluttershy in "Filli Vanilli" where she keeps getting scared out of her wits from Pinkie describing every horrifying detail about public singing. Then when it's discovered that she's been secretly singing for the Ponytones from behind the curtain, her anxiety distorts the cheering crowd into a crowd that is cruelly mocking her and she runs home crying.
** Fluttershy again in "Twilight's Kingdom -- Part 2" when [[spoiler:Discord temporarily betrays the Mane Six, particularly Fluttershy, with whom he was great friends. Just to rub salt into her wound, Discord reminds her of a promise he made of a tea party in Part 1 and then conjures up a tea party set only to smash everything on the ground at her feet]]. She's reduced to a sobbing wreck in Applejack's arms. It's the most distraught we've seen her as so far.
** Pinkie is still being mentally tortured in Season 6. In "The Gift of the Maud Pie", she (consensually) trades her beloved Party Cannon for a rock pouch (a gift for Maud). Maud and Rarity force the trader to make the switch back, but until then, Pinkie can only speak in a quiet, depressed voice with her head hung in despair.
** Sunset Shimmer gets put through the wringer in ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsForgottenFriendship Equestria Girls — Forgotten Friendship]]''. Having long left her [[HeelFaceTurn villainous ways]] behind her and established herself as a loyal friend and AllLovingHero, she's horrified to discover one morning that her friends no longer remember her good qualities [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten and see her as the bully she used to be]], and later finds the rest of her school is the same way. She still has a few friends in Equestria, but they're powerless to do anything beyond provide her with what research into the cause that they can, and Sunset's attempts to convince her friends of who they really are to each other fail because she'd been prone to faking evidence and putting on a kind facade in the past. She falls into hopelessness as she sees her friends living happily without her, with even her HairTriggerTemper burning away into a weak frustration, and she only manages to rally when she gets the unexpected support of Trixie. [[spoiler:When she finally catches the perpetrator, who attempts to break Sunset even further by [[LaserGuidedAmnesia wiping out her friends' memories]] of each other as well as her, Sunset ends up TakingTheBullet to spare them and having her memories painfully extracted, leaving her confused and helpless as her friends look on in horror.]] Mercifully, [[spoiler:her friends finally come to her defense and destroy the MacGuffin imprisoning their memories, [[HealTheCutie reuniting them and restoring their friendship]]]].

** Aang himself starts off as this rather goofy, optimistic kid. Then learns that his own people have been killed off, everyone he ever knew is gone, that he's capable of pretty horrible destruction and might need to kill people.

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998''. Him seems bent on destroying the Powerpuffs (especially [[ProneToTears Bubbles]]) mentally and came close a few times (like in "Speed Demon", "Power-Noia", and "All Chalked Up"). However, he failed every time.
** Played semi-straight in the episode "Bubblevicious". Bubbles essentially induces this on herself, trying to become as strong as her sisters. She loses her sweet act and becomes rather brutal (Read: bitchy). This culminates with Bubbles taking it UpToEleven after Mojo Jojo tries to torture her and break her even further. Bubbles wouldn't have any of that shit. Luckily, though, [[BewareTheNiceOnes after probably deadening a majority of Mojo's nerve cells]], her sisters come and snap her out of it quite quickly.

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* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''. Him seems bent on destroying the Powerpuffs (especially [[ProneToTears Bubbles]]) mentally and came close a few times (like in "Speed Demon", "Power Noia", and "All Chalked Up"). However he failed every time.
** Though, played semi-straight in the episode "Bubblevicious". Bubbles essentially induces this on herself, trying to become as strong as her sisters. She loses her sweet act and becomes rather brutal (Read: bitchy). This culminates with Bubbles taking it UpToEleven after Mojo Jojo tries to torture her and break her even further. Bubbles wouldn't have any of that shit. Luckily, though, [[BewareTheNiceOnes after probably deadening a majority of Mojo's nerve cells]], her sisters come and snap her out of it quite quickly.
** Also played straight in the episode "Not So Awesome Blossom", when Blossom feels as if she might not be fit to be the leader anymore after she messes up on a mission.
** Played straight again to Blossom in "The Mane Event" due to being embarrassed by her TraumaticHaircut.

** Happens to Prince Zuko '''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. Speak out against the needless sacrificing of soldiers? Get burned and banished by his father. 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 trope is the main reason why "Queen for a Day" from ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'' is such a WhamEpisode. In the course of a single episode, Varian, the alchemist that Rapunzel befriended, [[spoiler: loses his home to the black spikes that have been plaguing the land; proceeds to experiment on said spikes, causing him to lose his ''father'' thanks to a HeroicSacrifice; and lastly, tries to go to Rapunzel for help, only for her to turn him away since she has her own slew of problems to deal with at the time. Then he gets home and finds that it's too late to help his father, leaving him sobbing on the floor. The final result? Varian ''[[StartOfDarkness snaps]]'', swearing that he'll save his father no matter the cost and take {{revenge}} on those who will stand or have stood in his way...including Rapunzel.]] Just...''damn.''

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** Lapis Lazuli, we could go on all day. [[labelnote: The Full(ish) Story]]She was a civilian casualty in the middle of a 1000 year war; then mistaken for the enemy by her Homeworld; imprisoned in a magitek mirror and relentlessly interrogated for information she didn't know; left behind when the planet was evacuated (her gem cracked at the same time); then stayed there for ''five thousand years'' in total isolation, conscious the entire time. When she woke up in the present, things didn't exactly get better. She managed to befriend Steven and he healed her gem, then she escaped back to Homeworld, but once there... (deep breath) She was subjected to the culture shock of a planet 5000 years more advanced than when she left; then forced to be an informant on the next mission to Earth, where she was bullied by Jasper; once she revealed that she knew Steven, Jasper put her in a jailcell and intended worse punishment when they got back to Homeworld; once the Crystal Gems brought down the Homeworld spacecraft, she was pulled from the rubble by Jasper and practically [[RapeISASpecialKindOfEvil forced to fuse]]; and when she accepted and they formed Malachite, she revealed that she only accepted in order to trap ''both'' of them at the bottom of the ocean. They stayed there, fused and fighting for dominance in the mind-space, for ''months'', until Jasper had mentally beaten Lapis into complete submission. Thankfully, the Gems were able to defeat Malachite and free Lapis. Even so, the experiences have left definitive scars.[[/labelnote]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama World Tour'' proves a rough season for sweet GranolaGirl Bridgette. She becomes the only girl whose relationship is seriously impacted by [[ManipulativeBastard Alejandro]] when he manipulates her into cheating on [[SurferDude Geoff]] with him (thus ruining her own efforts to stay strong without Geoff) and leaves her TongueOnTheFlagpole; gets no help for her predicament and has to sing about it; is blamed for costing her team the challenge and receives a humiliating elimination of still being stuck to the pole when falling out of the Drop of Shame; becomes too ashamed of her own infidelity to face Geoff at first; and gets her relationship troubles exploited for ratings by [[SmugSnake Blaineley]] (who continues trying to cause drama even after the couple reconcile and move on, even shipping Bridgette off to Siberia). [[TheWoobie Poor girl.]]
** ''Revenge of the Island'': In the episode "Backstabbers Ahoy", the kind and compassionate CuteWitch Dawn is put through this. She gets framed by [[TeamKiller Scott]] for stealing the other campers' possessions and is voted out because of said {{Frameup}} despite her attempts to defend herself and warn the others of Scott. To make matters worse, Scott had gotten Dawn's hopes up with a fake immunity idol he forged to dupe her, and then Dawn gets stuffed into a garbage bag by Chef before being catapulted off the island.

** Sunset Shimmer gets put through the ringer in ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsForgottenFriendship Equestria Girls -- Forgotten Friendship]]''. Having long left her [[HeelFaceTurn villainous ways]] behind her and established herself as a loyal friend and AllLovingHero, she's horrified to discover one morning that her friends no longer remember her good qualities [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten and see her as the bully she used to be]], and later finds the rest of her school is the same way. She still has a few friends in Equestria, but they're powerless to do anything beyond provide her with what research into the cause that they can, and Sunset's attempts to convince her friends of who they really are to each other fail because she'd been prone to faking evidence and putting on a kind facade in the past. She falls into hopelessness as she sees her friends living happily without her, with even her HairTriggerTemper burning away into a weak frustration, and she only manages to rally when she gets the unexpected support of Trixie. [[spoiler:When she finally catches the perpetrator, who attempts to break Sunset even further by [[LaserGuidedAmnesia wiping out her friends' memories]] of each other as well as her, Sunset ends up TakingTheBullet to spare them and having her memories painfully extracted, leaving her confused and helpless as her friends look on in horror.]] Mercifully, [[spoiler:her friends finally come to her defense and destroy the MacGuffin imprisoning their memories, [[HealTheCutie reuniting them and restoring their friendship]]]].

** Sunset Shimmer gets put through the ringer in ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsForgottenFriendship Equestria Girls -- Forgotten Friendship]]''. Having long left her [[HeelFaceTurn villainous ways]] behind her and established herself as a loyal friend and AllLovingHero, she's horrified to discover one morning that her friends no longer remember her good qualities [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten and see her as the bully she used to be]], and later finds the rest of her school is the same way. She still has a few friends in Equestria, but they're powerless to do anything beyond provide her with what research into the cause that they can, and Sunset's attempts to convince her friends of who they really are to each other fail because she'd been prone to faking evidence and putting on a kind facade in the past. She falls into hopelessness as she sees her friends living happily without her, with even her HairTriggerTemper burning away into a weak frustration, and she only manages to rally when she gets the unexpected support of Trixie. [[spoiler:When she finally catches the perpetrator, who attempts to break Sunset even further by wiping out her friends' memories of each other as well as her, Sunset ends up TakingTheBullet to spare them and having her memories painfully extracted, leaving her confused and helpless as her friends look on in horror.]] Mercifully, [[spoiler:her friends finally come to her defense and destroy the MacGuffin imprisoning their memories, [[HealTheCutie reuniting them and restoring their friendship]]]].

* Happens TWICE in the Season 2 finale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': first when [[spoiler: normally cheerful Marcy's DarkSecret is revealed, causing her to go on a MotiveRant while bursting into BrokenTears]]; again when [[spoiler: King Andrias drops Sprig, with Anne bursting into tears and going into a SuperMode]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': Both Anne and Sprig took this hard at the end of [[WhamEpisode Hopping Mall]] when they both miss their respective moms. Anne tells Sprig about her mom and hope she would see her again if she finds a way to get back. After hearing this, Sprig tells Anne his mom passed away when he was young, but he never knew her because he was too young. After she realized that Sprig lost his parents, both Anne and Sprig hugged one another as they break down crying in each other's arms. If it's not enough to make you cry, the credits even made the mood more sadder as a soft version of "Anne's Theme" plays in the background.

** In "Yesterday's Lie", [[spoiler:when she accidentally reveals to her mother that she made the choice of wanting to stay in the Boiling Isles. this causes her mother Camila to feel both betrayed and heartbrokern, wondering if Luz hated living with her. Before Luz can explain, she starts to gets pulled back through the portal before it collapses. Camila then asks her to promise her when she returns to Earth, she has to promise to stay on Earth. Luz is then forced promise keep her mother's promise, however she ends up regretting it, as she is now wondering what she's going to tell her found family, friends, and girlfriend.]]

** In "Yesterday's Lie", [[spoiler:when she accidentally reveals to her mother that she made the choice of wanting to stay in the Boiling Isles. this causes her mother Camila to feel both betrayed and heartbrokern, wondering if Luz hated living her. Before Luz can explain, she starts to gets pulled back through the portal before it collapses. Camila then asks her to promise her when she returns to Earth, she has to promise to stay on Earth. Luz is then forced promise hermother, however she ends up regretting it, as she is now wondering what she's going to tell her found family, friends, and girlfriend.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Luz goes through this twice, first when Eda turns into the Owl beast and learns that Lilth put the curse on her and when after Eda gets captures, she breaks down into Tears. In "Yesterday's Lie",when she accidentally reveals to her mother that she made the choice of wanting to stay in the Boiling Isles, this causes her mother: Camilla to feel both betray and heartbrokern, wondering if Luz hated living her, before Luz can explain, she doesn't as she is being pulled away as the Portal is about to close. Camilla then asks her to promise her when she returns to Earth, she has to promise to stay on Earth. Luz is then forced to keep it, however she ends up regretting it, as she is now wondering what she's gone to tell her Found family and friends.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Luz goes through twice, first when Eda turns into the Owl beast and learns that Lilth put the curse on her and when after Eda gets captures, she breaks down into Tears. In "Yesterday's Lie",when she accidentally reveals to her mother that she made the choice of wanting to stay in the Boiling Isles, this causes her mother: Camilla to feel betray and heartbrokern, wondering if Luz hated living her, before Luz can explain, but doesn't. Camilla then asks her to promise her when she returns to Earth, she has to promise to stay on Earth. Luz is then forced to keep it, however she ends up regretting it, as she is now wondering what she's gone to tell her Found family and friends.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Luz goes through twice, first when Eda turns into the Owl beast and learns that Lilth put the curse on her and when after Eda gets captures, she breaks down into Tears. In "Yesterday's Lie",when she accidentally reveals to her mother that she made the choice of wanting to stay in the Boiling Isles, this causes her mother: Camilla to feel betray and heartbrokern, wondering if Luz hated living her, before Luz can explain, but doesn't. Camilla then asks her to promise her when she returns to Earth, she has to promise to stay on Earth. Luz is then forced to keep, however she ends up regretting as she now wondering what she's gone her Found family and friends.

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* Happens TWICE in the season 2 finale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': first when [[spoiler: normally cheerful Marcy's DarkSecret is revealed, causing her to go on a MotiveRant while bursting into BrokenTears]]; again when [[spoiler: King Andrias drops Sprig, with Anne bursting into tears and going into a SuperMode]].

** Katara herself suffered this very early in her life- before the series even started- when her mother was executed in cold blood.

* Toki Wartooth from ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}''. Man, season 2 broke that cutie. Yet, being an Adult Swim show, this is all somehow played for (very dark) laughs.

** Marinette seems to be heading towards this as of the end of the third season and into season 4 due to the pressure and responsibility of being Ladybug, especially after [[spoiler: Master Fu passes his guardianship of the Miracle Box onto her, at the cost of his memories]].

** In "A Canterlot Wedding," the characters all attend the wedding of Princess Cadance and Twilight's older brother, Shining Armor. Sounds completely lighthearted, right? Not after Twilight's hostile confrontation against Cadance at the wedding rehearsal causes Shining Armor to strip her of her "best mare" position and rescind her invitation to the wedding altogether, after which all of her friends and [[PalsWithJesus her idol, Princess Celestia]], follow his lead and coldly turn on her (the point is then driven further home with a DarkReprise sung by Twilight lamenting the loss of both her sister-to-be and her brother). Suddenly, Cadance reappears by Twilight's side, and for a moment it looks like all will be forgiven - [[spoiler: and then Cadance [[WhamLine claims she'll]] [[ImpliedDeathThreat make Twilight sorry]], [[DownerEnding ends Part 1 of the episode]] by imprisoning Twilight with dark magic, and starts off Part 2 by taunting Twilight with the fact that [[SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere no one will ever hear or come looking for her.]]]]

** The Mane Six in "Magical Mystery Cure". [[spoiler: Twilight inadvertently causes her friends' cutie marks - and destinies - to be switched, and her friends are unable to cope with the jobs they now believe they were always meant to be doing. Seeing her friends break down leads Twilight to tears herself, until Spike helps her remember just how important her friends are to her, giving her the spark of inspiration she needed to fix the problem.]]

** Fluttershy again in "Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2" when [[spoiler:Discord temporarily betrays the Mane Six, particularly Fluttershy, with whom he was great friends. Just to rub salt into her wound, Discord reminds her of a promise he made of a tea party in Part 1 and then conjures up a tea party set only to smash everything on the ground at her feet]]. She's reduced to a sobbing wreck in Applejack's arms. It's the most distraught we've seen her as so far.
** Pinkie is still being mentally tortured in season 6. In "The Gift of the Maud Pie", she (consensually) trades her beloved Party Cannon for a rock pouch (a gift for Maud). Maud and Rarity force the trader to make the switch back, but until then, Pinkie can only speak in a quiet, depressed voice with her head hung in despair.

** In season 15, Kyle isn't the only one who gets broken, but Stan too. Stan spends 2 episodes in a state of cynicism that worsens after [[spoiler:his parents temporarily divorce again]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', episode 19: [[spoiler: Sadlygrove, possessed by the demon of his sword, proceed to crush both forearm and bow of LoveInterest Evangelyne, who has only just begun to reciprocate his feelings, in one grasp. The tears of physical and emotional pain she show afterwards are enough to cause a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment in Sadlygrove, almost making him another broken cutie.]]

* In Season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'', both of the Big Bads do this to Hay Lin in different points of the sow, but most notably in "T is for Trauma" where Nerissa brings her to a serious HeroicBSOD where she refuses to fight.