ZCE 26/ 50 52%
- Love Hurts: When Hyeonjung realizes Baekhyun doesn't return her feelings and never will, she's absolutely heartbroken and goes through an Emo Teen phase. Fortunately, she recovers; even doing an Important Haircut and changing her originally long hair to a shorter look.
%%* Emo Teen:
- Emo Teen: Janine the cashier.
5. Surviving Middle School: A Bullying Story
- Emo Teen: Kat and her best friend.
6. The Amazing World of Gumball: Students of Elmore Junior High
%%* Emo Teen:
- Emo Teen: Despite looking in his mid-twenties, he's barely even teenage.
8. Reba S 06 E 09 Bullets Over Brock
- Straw Nihilist: Played for Laughs. Van's assessment about Kyra's understanding (or lack thereof) regarding sports has this trope in mind, as he confides to Cheyenne.
- Emo Teen: Has this attitude in general.
10. Backyard Sports
%%* Emo Teen: In the later games.
11. It's Kind of a Funny Story
- Emo Teen: Noelle.
- Emo Teen: Has this aesthetic.
13. Anime & Manga
- In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, several of the witches, their barriers and imagery are rather creepy. However, veteran Puella Magi enter barriers day after day, and are unfazed by this. A good example is Yachiyo Nanami, a veteran from Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story. Special shoutout goes to Homura, who - after Sayaka and Madoka cowered before the sight of Mami dying gruesomely, - defeats Charlotte like she was just another conquered castle. Explanation: Homura is a Time Master, who's Save Scumming here.
14. Misfit Lab Rat
- Guys Being Dudes: Arlo is imagined as an overgrown Emo Teen here and retains his position as Team GO Rocket's main scientist.
- Kate from Lost started out as one of the main characters in the ensemble, a fairly solid example of a Troubled, but Cute girl. However, as the series entered its second season, she became increasingly obsessed with Jack. Her attempts to rescue/ingratiate herself with/impress or otherwise have contact with him have led to an ever-growing list of problems that are completely her making — she seems to think she's back on a junior high playground (albeit one where she gets to have sex with Sawyer, the Jerk with a Heart of Gold, before going back to see what Jack is up to), not trapped on an island with a group of psychotics and a bunch of Epileptic Trees.
- This is taken to new lows in the Season 5 finale, when a group of Losties ends up in the past thanks to some pesky time-travel, and they have to decide whether or not to detonate a nuclear bomb, whose explosion might change the future and prevent everything they've gone through to happen. Jack finally admits that his main reason to do it is that he lost Kate's love. Juliet's reason is that she noticed Sawyer, her current love interest, looking at Kate in a certain way. Kate and Sawyer go along with the plan. Sadly, Miles and Hurley reluctantly agree instead of pumping these emo douchebags full of hot lead.
16. Once Upon a Time
- Little Red Riding Hood becoming a promiscuous Emo Teen. Doubles as a case of Fridge Brilliance when you realize the source material.
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- Avatar: The Last Airbender:
- Zuko and Mai share a huge beach umbrella on the beach — one gets the impression they were going for the "emos hate sunlight" image.
- Emo Teen: She even writes about how emo she is in her diary.
- Emo Teen: Fits this perfectly, even more so than Nozomu.
20. Fire Emblem Heroes: A Day in the Life
- "Children of Darkness" has both Robins meeting both versions of Fallen Morgan thinking they're the perky normal versions of their children. These Morgans chastise them for this and reaffirm their support for Grima. The Robins' response? Give hugs and headpats all while thinking they're just going through an Emo Teen phase. Chrom is less than amused to say the least.
21. Offbeat
Tory Blake is fifteen, a genius, and bored. He spends his time breezing through school, doodling, worrying his mother, playing 90s computer games with his college-aged neighbor, and documenting everything that happens in his life in worrying detail. One night, something happens that promises to alleviate his boredom: a mysterious boy, Colin Stephens, and his guardian move into the duplex next door. Over the next year, Tory becomes increasingly obsessed with figuring out the mystery behind his neighbors' bizarre actions, to the point of transferring schools to get closer to Colin. What secrets could Colin be hiding? What is the Gaia Project, and how does Colin fit into it?
22. Visual Kei
- Emo Teen: The Nagoya fanbase has a large number of these. Some artists, such as Kiyoharu of Kuroyume were this at some point.
- Emo Teen: Your eldest daughter Jayne.
24. Troll
- Forum Warz is an RPG where you play a troll — an Emo Kid, a Camwhore, a Hacker, a Troll, or a Perma-Noob. People contact you to bring down forums by "fighting" forum threads, derailing them, and posting nonsense until you "pwn" the entire forum.
- "Emo Dragon Poetry"Explanation
26. DuckTales (2017) - Season 2
- Since Donald and Della have their well-used room in the mansion, and Scrooge is mentioned but not their parents, it's pretty clear the twins have already been orphaned and taken in by Scrooge by that Christmas, which may be the source of Donald's Emo Teen phase.
Just Moody 14/ 50 28%
- Jerkass Woobie:
- Kevin. He's a lazy, irresponsible, and totally irreverent slacker. But his poor performance in school is implied to be caused by Childhood Brain Damage from a near-fatal drowning incident. An angsty Emo Teen, he's usually on very poor terms with his father and dislikes him, but is always desperately craving for his affection.
"You know, It's nice to see that her actions haven't made you all angsty and emo, but still. This is the woman who killed your mother and father, turned you into a frog, ruined your kingdom and is now trying to take over the world. A little more resentment would not go amiss."
— Infamous Animation, Erik Olund on Freddie's lack of anger towards Messina during his Freddie as F.R.O.7 review.
3. Law & Order: Organized Crime
- Emo Teen: Justified, given that Eli is absolutely devastated by his mom's death and is withdrawn and snarky as a result.
- Emo Teen: Is constantly complaining about how meaningless life is. He'll attempt suicide if Joe is killed.
5. League Of Legends Themes A To M
- Adaptational Heroism: Insofar as the Dawnbringers can represent "heroism", but among the bright, vaguely angelic warriors of order include Vex (a self-centered and perpetually bored Emo Teen), and Rhaast (a destructive Omnicidal Maniac).
- Harold and Maude - An Emo Teen who attends funerals and commits mock-suicide for fun gets into a relationship with a 79-year-old woman who is basically the septuagenarian equivalent of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. She kills herself for real in the end, but he still stops faking his suicides and starts actually living life.
7. Film
- Harold and Maude is... a tricky sell. The film is a romantic Black Comedy, following the brewing friendship and romantic relationship between a proto-Emo Teen who habitually fakes his own suicide in elaborate ways and a feisty Manic Pixie Dream Girl who happens to be 79 years old. Upon release in 1971, it received middling reviews and bombed commercially, and it took at least a decade for audiences and critics alike to reevaluate the film as an underrated classic of black, existentialist comedy, finally making a profit in 1983.
8. Changed
- There's an Emo Teen shark who immediately notices Colin, but can't be assed to give chase. Word of God describes him as unhappy he's changing into an adolescent.
9-10. Lovers of Aether
- Emo Teen: This version of Forsburn, complete with angsty poetry about how "Dads just don't get it".
- High School AU: The setting of the story is Aether Academy, which all of the main Rivals characters attend as students, with more minor characters playing other students or instructors. It's very clearly a parody of the trope, however, with the characters (themselves exaggerated) fitting neatly into clichés the setting is known for (Forsburn is an Emo Teen who writes moody poetry, Maypul goes from mere confident self-appointed defender of her home to an Academic Alpha Bitch, Wrastor is an arrogant Big Man on Campus, etc.) and in general playing all these clichés up to eleven for a laugh.
- I completely loathed it in senior English because I couldn't get past what I saw as Holden just being a whiny little bitch that I wanted to slap upside the head. It wasn't until I re-read it as an adult that I could appreciate the other aspects of the story, even if I still wanted to smack Holden senseless. By the time I hit adolescence, disaffected teenage characters were so much the norm that I had a hard time sympathizing with him, because I'd already read so many stories about troubled teenagers. For me it was definitely a case of Once Original, Now Common, and Holden's pseudo-intellectualism started to really grate after the first chapter.
- Harold and Maude - An Emo Teen who attends funerals and commits mock-suicide for fun gets into a relationship with a 79-year-old woman who is basically the septuagenarian equivalent of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. She kills herself for real in the end, but he still stops faking his suicides and starts actually living life.
- Wangst: Nigh-on universal in the 2000s and early-2010s when Emo Teens were among pop culture's favorite punching bags, but nowadays seen as incredibly disrespectful once people began reckoning with the general lack of empathy towards people with legitimate emotional trauma and behavioral issues that riddled the 2000s. However, this trope still occasionally sees use, mainly because it can also show how a character will overreact.
14. Useless Notes
- Wangsty emo teenagers only listen to Linkin Park.
Gothic 10/ 50 20%
- Emo Teen: She's a teen who dresses in black for most of the film and doesn’t respond to her mother’s affection. She also apparently believes that people are only hiding that they are only darkness when her mother admits to having thoughts of death that were affecting Barbie.
2-3. Lopoddity
- Emo Teen: Ponyville's resident emo kid. She renamed herself Midnight Abyss (to reflect the darkness she feels in her soul) and would dye her coat black if her mums would allow her. Her moms don’t really take this attitude seriously, to her great annoyance.
- Everyone Has Standards: Played for Laughs, but Word of God said this on shipping Morning with anypony:Lopoddity: Ya’ll suggested pairing her with Cupcake, Moondancer, Rosemary, Chakra Blossom, Lucy (Lucifer), Truffles, Magnolia May, Skyla, PB Sandwich, Jam Sandwich, Pandora, Bruce, Artemis....like geez as though inflicting this little ball of sweet smiling sunshine and rainbows on anyone wouldn’t be a form of cruel and unusual punishment.
- More thoroughly demonstrated when people started shipping Morning with her pet zombie. This culminated with Lop outright stating why I Love the Dead is both horribly disturbing and not useful for any sexual benefit before declaring her intent to dump bleach on her brain. Full details here.
- On a lighter note, she may be an Emo Teen but she does love her mothers and is fond of her zombie assistant Bertram, the first corpse she ever managed to resurrect. And despite the fact it didn't end in romance, she enjoyed her date with PB and he is one of the few ponies she won't make a voodoo doll for.
- More thoroughly demonstrated when people started shipping Morning with her pet zombie. This culminated with Lop outright stating why I Love the Dead is both horribly disturbing and not useful for any sexual benefit before declaring her intent to dump bleach on her brain. Full details here
4. The Amazing World of Gumball: Students of Elmore Junior High
- Emo Teen: Carrie is described as emo, though she has a lot of goth elements like her occult room decorations and loving the smell of death. One time she even described herself as punk-rock.
- T.K.O.'s personality is something of an Emo Teen Goth, and when he's not being a Knight of Cerebus, he has some downright hilarious lines. His crowning jewel probably being this one:
- At the end when Mr. Freeman dares people to leave a comment, Weasel obliges by unrolling a piece of paper and starts reading off a fairly typical Youtube comment in a Medieval English accent as if he was a Squire reading off a royal decree.Weasel (In a Regal Tone of Speaking) My comment is. As. Follows. Christ what a bunch of insipid winging. If I wanted to listen to the nihilistic rantings of a mid-2000s Hot Topic genetic disaster, I would go back in time and hang out with the dink from High School who talked non-stop about how Hitler was just misunderstood. Cool animation though.
- A Song of Ice and Fire: Gerold "Darkstar" Dayne is regarded this way by a good portion of the fanbase. This stems partially from his rather cheesy name, appearance and persona, with lines like "I am of the night" seen as trying too hard to invoke Evil Is Cool, crossed with the fact that for all his boasting and buildup as a badass the only thing of note he does is try to kill Myrcella Baratheon (an unarmed and defenceless little girl) a task which he fails at. This has led to his nickname "Dorkstar" and general perception as a whiny, pretentious Emo Teen and incompetent poseur with an over-inflated opinion of himself. he inevitable comparison is to the Red Viper, who is actually a badass.
- Eridan tries to express his loneliness:Eridan: What do you do if you've got a song in your heart but no one to share it with, huh?Gamzee: I play with my horns, bro!
- Emo Teen: Eep looks like one as she writes about her break-up with Guy, complete with bangs.
10. Video Games
