Break the Cutie/Fan Works: Difference between revisions

{{quote| '''"Danny sat at the edge of the pool, crossed legged, watching carelessly the variety of fishes swimming about in the pool's surrounding aquarium. The tired and defeated expression on his face made him appear as if he had aged several years. There was no happiness or vigor in his eyes, leaving them a dull, lifeless blue. In short, he looked everything a broken hero would; and there was nothing more heartbreaking than that sight."'''}}

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5367085/1/The_Sun_Soul The Sun Soul] does this with [[Pokémon (anime)|Ash]] to no end. The story's overall feel is [[Darker and Edgier]] in pretty much every regard, but it seems like Ash was made for nothing if not to suffer one loss after another. It also contains multiple examples of [[Hero-Killer]] vilians, [[Wham! Episode|Wham Episodes]], and [[HSQ]] in general.

* The ''[[One Piece]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4132768/1/Dark_Truth Dark Truth]''. {{spoiler|One night, Luffy is tortured and nearly killed by his crew, who are possessed by the ghosts of a long-dead pirate crew who seek revenge on all captains traveling through their haunting grounds. He survives, but is a lethargic shell of his former self, and his crew can't remember what happened that night.}} Also contains [[Squick]], [[Nightmare Fuel]], [[And I Must Scream]], [[To the Pain]], [[Fate Worse Than Death]], and ''especially'' [[Et Tu, Brute?]].

* For some reason, [[Star Trek|Jim Kirk]] is given a [[Break the Cutie]] back story to [[Freudian Excuse|explain]] his [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] behavior. Witnessing a massacre on Tarsus IV, child abuse, mentally ill mother, and rape as backstory are all favorite plotlines. There is even a link on the ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' fanfic recs to a Hurt!Jim site consisting entirely of fics involving Kirk getting hurt. Chekhov tends to take alot of pain, too.

* The ''[[Firefly]]'' fanfic ''[[Forward]]'' manages to break {{spoiler|River ''all over again'' after she started healing at the end of the movie}} by having {{spoiler|both River and Jayne captured and tortured by Niska, effectively undoing nearly a year's worth of mental healing for her.}}

* The ''[[Naruto]]'' [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3332676/1/Quotidian fanfic Quotidian] is basically one long exercise in Hidan driving Temari to the breaking point by messing with her first mentally and then physically, (She contributes by {{spoiler|taking so many stimulant shots her body pretty much breaks down and fails * just after* he decides he's not going to kill her yet}}. It works so well that she {{spoiler|ends up attacking her brother Kankurou after hallucinating he's Hidan and then ending up in hospital and under psyche review (which she passes through merit of knowing the correct answers)}}. Of course, if Hidan could be seen as a cutie, this could also work both ways as {{spoiler|he ends up so obsessed with the idea she can kill him that he breaks down when he finds out she can't, and that his obsession is no sign from his god, just him being a bit of a [[Stalker with a Crush]], even if he doesn't see it himself. Oh and he managed to agonize about betraying his beliefs in order to keep her alive (because he wants her to kill him later, naturally.)}}

* The ''[[Lucky Star]]''/''[[Fallout]] 3'' crossover fic [[Falling Stars]] has this in ''spades''. Kagami, Konata, and Tsukasa all get their turns being broken, and it is ''extremely'' jarring for anyone who enjoyed ''Lucky Star'' to see it happen.