Break the Cutie/Live-Action TV: Difference between revisions

** Even before that, the script writers decided to pile the abuse on Elliot, [[Deus Angst Machina|culminating with her being sued by a]] [[Jerkass]] [[Deus Angst Machina|patient, causing her to get kicked out of her house and live in her moving van,]] ''[[Deus Angst Machina|which then gets stolen with all of her stuff.]]'' And none of her friends seem to care.

** In season 1's "My Own Personal Jesus," this happens to Turk when he's on-call during Christmas Eve, and is inundated with a string of horrors from the emergency room that leave him utterly broken and hopeless by morning. [[Gallows Humor|His breaking is even set to a cheerful Christmas melody!]]

And a drunk who drove into a tree. }}

* In the seventh season of ''[[24]]'', Agent Renee Walker meets Jack Bauer. Within 10 hours, she is shot at, betrayed, choked to unconsciousness, wounded in the neck, buried alive, then resuscitated. Besides that, she almost suffocated a man in the hospital, held a woman hostage, threatened that woman's child, then got a different woman killed after she'd promised ''that'' woman's sister to keep her safe. Hour 10 had her point a gun at Jack, then later slap him in the face before collapsing into his arms and weeping hysterically. The cutie, she broke.

* [[The Woobie|Poor]] [[Blake's Seven|Vila.]]

* Played with in a season two episode of [[Queer as Folk]], when they have some sort of annual "fun for the whole family" day at Michael's job, and the newest employee have to stand all day, dressed up as a clown, handing out balloons to the children.

'''Michael:''' She's sweet. At least she was until today. Today we drain her of her soul. }}

* Zack, from [[Bones]], anyone? He was an [[Adorkable]] kid who was very socially awkward, but overall well liked and definitely a cutie. {{spoiler|Then, we find out that he's the apprentice to a cannibalistic murderer, and he confesses to murdering somebody (although we find out later that he didn't actually kill the guy). He is then sent to a mental institution.}} Definitely qualifies as breaking the cutie.