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* The octogenarian (very unusual for a [=MPDG=], as they're usually, if anything, younger than the protagonist) Maude in ''HaroldAndMaude'', who teaches young Harold to get over himself and his obsession with death. [[spoiler:Without telling her lover, she opts for self-administered euthanasia.]]
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* The octogenarian (very octogenarian[[hottip:*:very unusual for a [=MPDG=], as they're usually, if anything, younger usually no older than the protagonist) protagonist and often younger]] Maude in ''HaroldAndMaude'', who teaches young Harold to get over himself and his obsession with death. [[spoiler:Without telling her lover, she opts for self-administered euthanasia.]]
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* In ''[[http://www.johnnybunko.com/ The Adventures of Johnny Bunko]]'', whose title character accidentally summons a fairy to help him with his... career. The fairy turns out to be highly practical, quite knowledgeable, and does not take crap from him or anyone.
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* The octogenarian (very unusual for a [=MPDG=], as they're usually, if anything, younger than the protagonist) Maude in ''HaroldAndMaude'', who teaches young Harold to get over himself and his obsession with death. [[spoiler:Without telling her lover, she opts for self-administered euthanasia.]]
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* In the Flash-based visual [[strike:novel]] short story ''AirPressure'', [[AFGNCAAP a nameless young man]] is re-evaluating his continuing relationship with Leigh, an [=MPDG=] who came into his life a few years ago. [[PlayingWithATrope How closely she fits this formula depends on your choices.]] [[spoiler:Ultimately {{subverted}} after a couple plays through [[FridgeHorror when the addiction subtext sinks in]].]]
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** [[spoiler: Also a bit of a subversion, since they don't stay together]]
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* Sebastian Flyte is a male version.
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* The [[http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Leanan_Sidhe leanan sidhe]] [[TheFairFolk fairy]] of the Celts is basically this. It's understood that a relationship with such a literal manic pixie is [[DownerEnding doomed]] to end with the human lover [[GoMadFromTheRevelation losing his mind from exposure to the sidhe's alien ways,]] or have his [[SoullessShell life drained away]] from the sheer excitement she causes him to have. It's also implied that a human may [[DeathByDespair die from despair]], as he knows the pixie will leave him one day and he'll never find anyone like her ever again among a human population.
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* The [[http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Leanan_Sidhe leanan sidhe]] [[TheFairFolk fairy]] of the Celts is basically this. It's understood that a relationship with such a literal manic pixie is [[DownerEnding doomed]] to end with the human lover [[GoMadFromTheRevelation losing his mind from exposure to the sidhe's alien ways,]] or have his [[SoullessShell life drained away]] from the sheer excitement she causes him to have. It's also implied that a human may [[DeathByDespair die from despair]], as he knows the pixie will leave him one day and he'll never find anyone like her ever again among a human population.
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* "Lilly" by Pink Martini describes either a ManicPixieDreamGirl, or a very enthusiastic puppy dog ("Lilly comes when you stop to call her, Lilly runs when you look away, Lilly leaves kisses on your collar, Lilly-Lilly-Lilly-Lilly stay!")
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* Deconstructed [[OlderThanRadio as far back]] as Ibsen's ''A Doll's House'', in which the heroine Nora is a flighty, vivacious, kooky child-woman who gradually realizes that she's been so working so hard at playing this role for her more conventional husband -- even through bearing him three children -- that she has never really grown up and has no idea of her true self, and that their relationship is thus only a game, not adult love. She leaves him to try and learn how to be a fully formed human being.
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* Deconstructed [[OlderThanRadio as far back]] as Ibsen's ''A Doll's House'', in which the heroine Nora is a (seemingly) flighty, vivacious, kooky child-woman who gradually realizes that she's been so working so hard at playing this role for her more conventional husband -- even through bearing him three children -- that she has never really grown up and has no idea of her true self, and that their relationship is thus only a game, not adult love. She leaves him to try and learn how to be a fully formed human being.
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* Realistically subverted with {{Cabaret}}'s Sally Bowles, who demonstrates just how messed up this kind of character tends to be in real life.
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* The title character in the interactive fiction game ''Violet'' is a Manic Pixie Dream Girl; she's the PlayerCharacter's quirky Australian girlfriend who has a limitless supply of pet names, makes gifts like origami trophies or custom snowglobes, is indefatigably supportive, and loves the PlayerCharacter [[spoiler:even after he/she destroys all the aforementioned gifts in order to, among other things, shut out his/her ex-girlfriend]].
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* The title character in the interactive fiction game ''Violet'' ''{{Violet}}'' is a Manic Pixie Dream Girl; she's the PlayerCharacter's quirky Australian girlfriend who has a limitless supply of pet names, makes gifts like origami trophies or custom snowglobes, is indefatigably supportive, and loves the PlayerCharacter [[spoiler:even after he/she destroys all the aforementioned gifts in order to, among other things, shut out his/her ex-girlfriend]].
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* Chuck does fulfil this role for Ned in ''PushingDaisies'', but she has plenty of her own characterisation.
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* Greer Garson's character in ''GoodbyeMrChips''.
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** Even though Ramona may look like the MPDG, she's more jaded, while Scott's other girlfriend, high schooler Knives Chau has more of the sunny disposition associated with this trope.
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* [[http://www.cinematical.com/2010/08/12/interview-scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world-co-star-mary-elizabeth/ An interviewer]] suggested this was true of Ramona in the ''ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' film. It should be noted that the character's given more to do in the comics, however, and people have theorized any lack of CharacterDevelopment for Ramona can be attributed to the film being from Scott's immature, self-obsessed perspective.
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** She brought about the fall of humanity and pissed off the Lord God himself. I'd hate to see your definition of a non-petty crime.
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*''{{Yankee-kun To Megane-chan}}'' subverts this. The girl forces him to help under the pretext of being the class president, making the life of the {{Delinquent}} loner hell with her hare-brained attitude and well-meaning schemes. Imagine SuzumiyaHaruhi without the talent or intelligence. [[spoiler:She's only bugging him because she used to be a delinquent herself and can't relate to anyone else]].
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*''{{Yankee-kun To Megane-chan}}'' subverts this. The girl forces him to help under the pretext of being the class president, making the life of the {{Delinquent}} loner hell with her hare-brained attitude and well-meaning schemes. Imagine SuzumiyaHaruhi without the talent or intelligence. [[spoiler:She's only bugging him because she used to be a delinquent herself and can't relate to anyone else]].
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* Although all of the Band-Aids are trying for this, Penny Lane is clearly ''the'' ManicPixieDreamGirl of ''AlmostFamous''. Though she avoids the stereotypical MPDG ending (dead or with the guy) - she ''almost'' dies of an overdose, only to be saved by William, then breaks it off with Russell to go live her own MPDG life in Morocco without either love interest. But, of course, in doing all this she shows Russell the error of his ways so that he can make things right with William, helping both of them toward stardom.
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* The film ''{{Waitress}}'' has a SpearCounterpart, Nathan Fillion plays Keri Russsel's ridiculously convenient and personality-lite bit-on-the-side, otherwise fulfilling all the typical criteria of the MPDG. Interestingly enough, the main character fulfils this trope in the lives of just about everyone around her, if you were to write a film centring on Nathan Fillion's character, or Adrienne Sheely's character, or Jeremy Sisto's character, it's exactly the role she would play (though in the last case it would be ''very'' bluntly subverted).
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* Parodied by Jennifer Aniston's character in the ''[[{{ptitleolsdue4jfzga}} 30 Rock]]'' episode "The One with the Cast of Night Court," where she ensnares powerful men like Jack Donaghy and, um, Scottie Pippen with her antics (designing bizarre hats, breaking into houses while wearing French maid outfits, singing inappropriately sexy renditions of "Happy Birthday to You", and frequently and emphatically "[[DoubleEntendre riding the F Train]]"). Everyone not currently sexing her up finds her completely insufferable. And she's crazy. Like, steal a cop's gun crazy.
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* Parodied by Jennifer Aniston's character in the ''[[{{ptitleolsdue4jfzga}} 30 Rock]]'' episode "The One with the Cast of Night Court," where she ensnares powerful men like Jack Donaghy and, um, Scottie Pippen with her antics (designing bizarre hats, breaking into houses while wearing French maid outfits, singing inappropriately sexy renditions of "Happy Birthday to You", and frequently and emphatically "[[DoubleEntendre riding the F Train]]"). Everyone not currently sexing her up finds her completely insufferable. And she's crazy. Like, steal a cop's gun crazy. It's indicated that instead of making them happier, she destroys their lives before moving on.
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* Although she's more of a GenkiGirl, [[{{GilmoreGirls}} Lorelai Gilmore]] often shows shades of this whenever she's talking to Luke.
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* In ''{{Firefly}}'' the insanely happy WrenchWench Kaylee to FishOutOfWater Simon, a stuffy, fugitive, kidgenious doctor.
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* Milly Ashford of ''CodeGeass'' is a bit of a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] given her [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend unrequited crush on Lelouch]]. Nonetheless, she uses her powers as StudentCouncilPresident to pair up Lelouch and Shirley, and finally succeeds at the end of [[SchoolFestival Cupid's Day]]. [[spoiler:The very next episode, [[KillTheCutie Shirley is murdered]].]]
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* Edie Sedgwick, a woman who hung around with Andy Warhol in his day, seems to have been this. She was anorexic and addicted to barbiturates. She eventually fell apart, went in and out of rehab a few times, and died of a drug overdose. Which tends to reinforce that this trope doesn't work very well in real life.
