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* ''[[Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name]]'' features Hanna after the fact, though Tessa featured a time line of his life where he was a happy go lucky kid, something absolutely terrible happened that brought him down to a severe depression/dark stage but then he got back up again. Some things he still refuses to talk about, but has returned to a somewhat normal cutie goof ball of hyper activity.

* ''[[Girls with Slingshots]]'' seems to be doing this a lot to Jamie lately. Those poor Woobie-ish eyes...

** Early webcomic ''[[Roomies]]'' is probably responsible for this, when it broke Joyce Brown by showing porn to her (yeah). Years later in ''It's Walky'', Joyce isn't so innocent, but thanks to some convenient [[Applied Phlebotinum]], she can't remember the incident and still thinks it was something absolutely horrible.

*** To be fair, the porn thing was supposed to show how [[Stepford Smiler|pathologically chaste and innocent Joyce had kept herself]] -- that generic porn could break her.

** In ''[[Shortpacked]]'' David Willis turns this trope into a huge subversion salad with [[Meganekko|Amber]] and [[Jerkass|Mike]]'s relationship. It starts when Amber blackmails Mike to pose as his boyfriend by threatening to expose his [[Dark Secret]]. Mike sets up an elaborated scheme to break the cutie to get free, giving Amber several blows in the process - but stops short from finalizing it because he's come to appreciate certain aspects of the pseudo relationship.

*** {{spoiler|He finally ends up giving the final blow when Amber starts pushing him towards marriage - now because he's genuinely fallen for her and thinks [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|she deserves someone better]]. It comes a little late however, since she's aware of his affection and sees right through the ruse.}}

* The entire series of ''[[Zebra Girl]]'' is one long, protracted exercise in Breaking the Cutie, followed by [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|the consequences]].

* ''[[City of Reality]]'' has this occur to a main cast member, the saccharinely idealistic Todo, who suffers a hard jolt of reality when confronted with the common cruelty of the World of Magic.

* Faen in ''[[Drowtales]]'' has experienced multiple [[Break the Cutie]] moments in succession. What makes it worse is that she's [[The Empath]] and incredibly sensitive to the most minute emotions.

** Ariel goes through this too. Kyo'nne actually has it pretty easy, although {{spoiler|being rejected one too many times by Shan'naal certainly hurt}}. Naal'suul is a pre-broken cutie, as is Kiel'ndia (although it's more obvious with Naal). Hell, it would probably be easier to list characters from Drowtales who haven't been through a round of Break The Cutie at some point.

* The ''[[Nof NA]]'' [http://www.nofna.com/index2.php?chapter=Pika April Fools comic] shows this happening to Pikachu at the hands of [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|one scary-ass trainer]].

* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'', adorable baby peanut butter monsters reach maturity in a single month. Molly spent her month being raised in a loving home environment by Bob, and is now very cheerful. Her sister Golly spent her month being treated as a lab animal and never knowing even a moment's love. She is... [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|markedly less cheerful]] than her sister.

* Subverted in ''[[The Challenges of Zona]]'' in that yes, Mentl turned Ginsha into a stuttering alchoholic who's psychosexually addicted to him, but he did it in self defense and unintentionally. He's not even aware that he has.

* Tekno in ''[[Sonic the Comic Online]]''. For years she's been conceived as a gentle, [[Teen Genius]]. Recently however she has gone through a mental breakdown due to her being away from technology for months on end, even {{spoiler|murdering a character}}, which she would have never done in her normal state of mind. She also attacked him physically, which is rare since she usually doesn't attack directly herself but use technology to do the job. {{spoiler|She's also never used lethal force}}. However it's implied she did [[Dark and Troubled Past|horrid things in her past.]]

 

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