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** 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.
*** And [https://web.archive.org/web/20111228230649/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20001018.html then] proves to be a Cutie who snaps, rather than breaking...
** 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.}}
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* 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.
* In ''[[Megatokyo]]'' there was a comic (a few actually) where Miho was playing head games with a drunken Largo. Piro walked over and saw what she did. Cue his [[Berserk Button]] . Afterwards she cried. [
* 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.
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