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** It's also a popular portrayal of Hungary (the local [[Hot Amazon]]), Ukraine (the Slavic [[Team Mom]]), Belarus (Ukraine's younger sister), Belgium (Netherlands's sister), and Taiwan (Vietnam's sister and [[The Cutie]] from the Asian group) in [[Dark Fic]]s. Vietnam and Taiwan's "brother", Hong Kong, is sometimes made into a male Broken Bird in fics.

** China himself could also qualify as this, [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|considering how long he's lived]], [[The Woobie|what's he's lived through]], [[China|and how much the actual country itself has suffered throughout the years]], [[Yaoi Fangirl|fangirls]] don't hesitate to put him in this position.

* Hitomi from ''[[Welcome to The NHK]]'' appears to be successful despite her constant ravings about conspiracies. However, in the middle of the series, it is shown she is a bit of an outcast at work and unhappy in her relationship, even to the point that she {{spoiler|joins a suicide pact and seems intent on jumping off a cliff over the ocean, until her boyfriend asks her to marry him, thus saving her.}}

** Misaki, despite also being the Token Loli of the series, also has some very apparent Broken Bird tendencies as well. She flinches noticeably when she presumes another character is going to strike her because of the fact that {{spoiler|she was forced to live with her abusive stepfather who constantly beat her}}, and she also {{spoiler|attempts suicide by throwing herself off the same cliff her mother did years before}}.

* Annie Newton in ''[[The Invisible]]''. Call her that, and she'll [[Berserk Button|beat the tar out of you]]. Half the movie is spent learning how she was broken.

* Nina of ''[[Black Swan]]'' is this trope in its purest form. [[Body Horror|Sometimes literally.]]

* Yoko from ''[[Love Exposure]]''.

* Julie from ''Heavy Metal 2000''.

** ''Afterglow'' really just serves to drive it home, as if Sarah's just finally coming to terms with her brokeness.

* Beth Hart's "Leave the Light On."

[[What Have I Become?|What I've become]] }}

* The song "Broken Wing" by Thousand Foot Krutch is all about this.

** Misuzu, dear God in Heaven, Misuzu, {{spoiler|between being cursed for wanting to see her Mother ''in her past life'' and experiencing excruciating pain, for herself, the cast, and, hell, even the audience, whenever she gets emotionally close to someone, and we won't even start with her Mother...}} Her pain is best summarized with one word... Gao~!

** Yukito fills this role as well, {{spoiler|from losing his Mother, the only person who he ever cared about, to being forced to complete her, and, by extension, his entire family line's, mission of helping the winged girl.}}

* Tsugumi from ''[[Ever 17]]'' is infallibly cold and unpleasant to all the other characters and repeatedly brushes off questions about why a slight young girl is stronger, tougher, and faster than the rest of them put together. Alongside merry japes with nail polish remover and blowtorches, she also manages to fit in suicidal tendencies and, in one scenario, {{spoiler|uses her superior strength to very nearly rape Takeshi.}} As a result, the point where she finally breaks down into tears and abandons all previous [[Jerkass]] tendencies is extremely satisfying, indeed.

** {{spoiler|So much so that it happens twice, when the even more bitter and twisted Tsugumi from Kid's route is revealed to be the same character 17 years later, who has since lost everything she gained in the first scenario.}}

** Terra, too, though she tries to hide it behind a [[Fun Personified]] façade. Stick around her long enough, though, and it becomes obvious the girl has ''serious'' issues with people.

* Mittens from ''[[Bolt]]''.

* Karai from ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' becomes one of these during the show's fourth and fifth seasons, after the turtles and Utroms exile her father to an icy asteroid.

* Meg of ''[[Family Guy]]''. Although it's [[Played for Laughs]] and she's a pretty big [[Butt Monkey]], some episodes depict her being both emotionally fragile and disturbed, [[I Just Want to Be Loved|derived from a desperation for love and attention.]]

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