A Manic Pixie Dream Girl (MPDG) is a stock character type in fiction, usually depicted as a young woman with eccentric personality quirks who serves as the romantic interest for a male protagonist. The term was coined by film critic Nathan Rabin after observing Kirsten Dunst's character in Elizabethtown (2005). Rabin criticized the type as one-dimensional, existing only to provide emotional support to the protagonist, or to teach him important life lessons, while receiving nothing in return. The term has since entered the general vernacular.
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A ManicPixieDreamGirl (MPDG) is a stock character type in fiction, usually depicted as a young woman with eccentric personality quirks who serves as...
June 16, 2017, Doll Skin released their full-length debut album ManicPixieDreamGirl. It debuted on the Billboard Heat-seeker chart at No. 6 and moved...
list of notable instances of the ManicPixieDreamGirl trope can be found on the article for ManicPixieDreamGirl. Damsel in distress serves as a character...
" Hepburn's character has been cited as an early example of the ManicPixieDreamGirl film archetype. The popularity of Bringing Up Baby has increased...
Some commentators note how Clementine's character criticizes the ManicPixieDreamGirl stock character several years before film critic Nathan Rabin coined...
alienating for men. She rejects the description of Ruby Sparks as a ManicPixieDreamGirl, calling it reductive and diminutive, whereas Ruby Sparks is about...
for the Funny Women award in 2015. She founded and hosted the "ManicPixieDreamGirls" show as part of Edinburgh's Free Festival in 2016 and 2017. She...
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"layers and history to what seems like a Greta Gerwig spin on the ManicPixieDreamGirl", and described the acting as "quietly powerful". After Fourteen...
naïve and unintelligent. It is regarded as the equivalent of the ManicPixieDreamGirl and dumb blonde stereotypes in the United States. The loosu ponnu...
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2021). "A Perfect Enemy review – devious Euro-thriller with the manicpixiedreamgirl from hell". The Guardian. Mury, Cécile (21 December 2021). "A Perfect...
analysis – Method to evaluate representation of women in fiction ManicPixieDreamGirl – Stock character type Mary Sue – Overly competent fictional character...
several more singles including "Honeysuckle", "Party Killer", and "ManicPixieDreamGirl", as well as acoustic versions of his first two singles entitled...
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from work. A modern critic has described her as an example of the ManicPixieDreamGirl, as Clarisse is an unusual sort of person compared to the others...
always be trusted. One song, "Crazytown", is about an alcoholic "manicpixiedreamgirl". Two singles were released: "Charmer", with a music video directed...
Rabin grew up on the north side of Chicago. He coined the phrase "manicpixiedreamgirl" as a cinematic archetype in 2007. He was a panelist on the short-lived...