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* There was some controversy when Keisha Castle-Hughes, who played Mary in ''[[The Nativity Story]]'', got pregnant while unmarried and 16-years old. Although many Christian groups did praise her for going through with the pregnancy and raising the child.
* The [[Trope Codifier|single most famous example]] is Marilyn Chambers. As a young model, her picture graced boxes of Ivory Snow detergent across the United States. When she became one of porn's most famous stars, Ivory Snow got a very quick repackaging. Also, contrary to popular legend, Marilyn Chambers was not the baby, but the young mother holding the baby.
* One year after the second ''[[Home Alone]]'' film came out, Macaulay Culkin was seen starring in the R-rated film ''[[The Good Son]]'' where he plays [[Creepy Child|a 10 year old psychopath]]. Among the things Culkin's character does are killing a dog with a homemade nailgun, causing a highway crash by dropping a dummy off a bridge, attempting to kill his mother, and as it's later found out, {{spoiler|murdering his younger brother by drowning him in the bathtub.}} [[Roger Ebert]]'s review can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20101223204527/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19930924/REVIEWS/309240303/1023%2F19930924%2FREVIEWS%2F309240303%2F1023 here].
** ...and yet, he still was caught in the trope when, a ''full decade later'', he played Michael Alig, the controversial founder of Club Kids, in ''Party Monster''.
** To further add fuel to the fire, Spanish dubs of ''The Good Son'' gave it the title ''El Ángel Malvado'' (The Evil Angel), as a direct allusion to Culkin's earlier ''Home Alone'' films, known over there as ''Mi Pobre Angelito'' (''My Poor Little Angel''), just in case people didn't get it was Macaulay Culkin playing this trope.
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