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The tendency for the brooding, angsty, loner boy to end up with a sweet, gentle girl who will patiently coax him out of his moods. While the appeal of the brooding boy probably has something to do with All Girls Want Bad Boys, the brooding boy isn't necessarily bad, he's just… moody, troubled. At worst, he'll be an Anti-Hero who's put his bad boy past behind him or at least is trying to. Maybe he has a Dark and Troubled Past. Maybe he's made terrible mistakes, and that weighs on his mind. Maybe he simply takes his responsibilities far more seriously than the rest of his teammates. Whatever the case, he's just waiting for someone to draw him out of his shell, and that person is the gentle girl. For her part and unlike her kookier sisters (the Manic Pixie Dream Girl and Genki Girl), the gentle girl doesn't try to actively shake the brooding boy out of his moodiness. Instead, she patiently and persistently offers kind words, either shy or gentle smiles, hugs, companionship, and hope. Usually The Power of Love will eventually heal the brooding boy, and she might learn some things about herself as well, especially if she ends up facing her own demons too. She may be the Living Emotional Crutch for the guy, but it's not necessary. Eventually, their appearance will be used to underline their personalities. She tends to be blonde, while his hair is usually dark. This dynamic can also show up in a lot of Yaoi and Yuri works. If one of the partners is really cheerful and sweet, the other partner is probably an angst-fest waiting to be unleashed. This relationship tends to be the focus of a Hurt/Comfort Fic. For a related couples trope based on personality dynamics, see Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl, Beast and Beauty, Ugly Guy, Hot Wife, Hot Guy, Ugly Wife, Light Liege, Dark Defender. Natural blue onis, especially in a Four-Temperament Ensemble that also has a Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl pairing. |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Godzilla and Mothra have this dynamic with Godzilla as the Brooding Boy and Mothra as the Gentle Girl; showcased in their couple-like interactions near the story's end. | |
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Angel & Faith has the titular characters, especially at the start of Season Nine, where Angel is recovering from having killed Giles. | |
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Can potentially happen in Shall We Date?: Ninja Shadow , if the Plucky Girl Player Character hooks up with guys like Eduard (the local Amnesiac Lover), Asagi (who turns out to have quite the Hidden Depths), Kagura ( who has a very troubled Split Personality), or Soushirou (a Stepford Smiler who's dealing with his soon to come death). | |
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The Tairen Soul protagonists are this before Character Development kicks in. Rain is a centuries-old warrior who scorched the world, and Elysetta is the young, seemingly human woman who gives him catharsis and finds it difficult to adjust to Fey politics. One of the ways Rain courts her is by playing with her little sisters. | |
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Nova: Richard Rider is serious and circumspect, and his sometimes-girlfriend Ginger Jaye is cheerful and perky. | |
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The Bleach fanfiction Chasing the Moon (and to a certain extent, it's prequel Phases of the Moon) sets this up with Yuzu Kurosaki and Byakuya Kuchiki. | |
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Mara, Daughter of the Nile: Thutmose and Inanni would be this if Thutmose was the least bit interested in going through with their Arranged Marriage. Inanni even has an Internal Monologue about how she "would be a good wife to him and comfort him when he headached" (She has been led to believe that severe headaches are the reason he is a Mood-Swinger.) | |
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Beauty and the Beast (2017): Unlike the animated original, the much more intelligent Beast fits this trope immediately, and it's his intelligence and education that woo Belle over. | |
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Gilmore Girls's season has Jess and Rory. Jess is the cynical brooding boy who falls for the town princess Rory after he discovers she has a passion for books and music similar to his own. Bonus points that both teens were a product of Teen Pregnancy but with two wildly different upbringings. note Rory's mother Lorelai considered Rory to be the best thing that ever happened to her, established a stable upbringing despite money issues, encouraged Rory to be anything she wanted to be, and supported her long-held dream to go to Harvard and become a journalist. Meanwhile, Jess's mom Liz raised him in what was implied to be poor conditions in New York, struggled with drug and alcohol issues, filled his childhood with a revolving round of horrible boyfriends and husbands, eventually kicked him out altogether, and left him with a ton of self-esteem issues. A recurring theme is Rory believing that Jess can do more than everyone - including him - expects and that it doesn't have to be him against the world. Although they eventually break up due to Jess's issues, he later returns having got his life together, lost the brooding aspect, and acknowledged he couldn't have done so without Rory believing in him. | |
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Hercules has a gender-flipped version with Megara (Brooding Girl) and Hercules (Gentle Boy). Megara was hurting badly after she made a Deal with the Devil with Hades and that backfired badly on her, so she was set as a Honey Trap of sorts for the super-strong Kind Hearted Simpleton Hercules… but Herc's cheerful approach to life and genuine care for people made Megara actually fall In Love with the Mark. | |
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Angel: Fred played "Gentle Girl" to both Gunn and Wesley. Well, when Gunn and Fred began expressing interest in each other, neither was particularly broody. Wesley, on the other hand... Connor and Not-Cordelia. With a twist in that the Gentle Girl is evil, is only gentle while he's watching, and is manipulating him into serving as her Dragon. |
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Arrow has adorkable I.T girl Felicity and broody vigilante Oliver. An ongoing theme throughout the series is Felicity helping him to open up about his tragic past and trust people again. Given the Trauma Conga Line he's gone through, it's not surprising he needs a little help in learning to be happy again. | |
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CSI: NY has Mac and Christine. He's the serious, brooding, widowed detective whose whole life is his job; she's the blonde sweetheart who coaxes him out of his moods and is, in his own words, "...everything that's good in [his] life". | |
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Top Gun: Maverick: Though Maverick hardly spends all his time brooding and Penny certainly does her fair share of lively teasing, she's also a steady, comforting presence for him in his darkest moments, including when Cyclone grounds him permanently and takes over training the rest of the pilots; she reassures him that he does have what it takes to train them well, and her faith in him gives him a second wind and helps get him back in the game. | |
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Disney's Beauty and the Beast, though it only started resembling the trope after Beast did something else than brooding and yelling at Belle (read: saved her from a pack of wild wolves). From then on Belle realized that there was more to Beast than cruelty, tended to his wounds, and started helping him to become a better man… well, man-beast. | |
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Winx Club: Resident gentle girl Flora's romantic interest who only appears in the comics is Karel, a brooding and mysterious werewolf. | |
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In Off the Line, Vincent and Rainstorm have this dynamic, especially when the latter is in his female form. | |
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Wreck-It Ralph: Gender-flipped with Felix and Calhoun. Felix is the overly friendly, pacifistic Gentle Boy to Calhoun's emotionally and psychologically scarred Brooding Girl who has "been programmed with the most tragic backstory ever". | |
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In Jessica, Cameron's online girlfriend "S" helps him through the period after his mother's death. | |
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Til Debt Do Us Part: The stoic, rich, and traumatized Yejun marries the cheerful and kind Subin, who not only draws him out of his shell but does the same for his similarly closed-off family. | |
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The Night Unfurls: Kyril and Evetta are a platonic example. Although he's not moody, Kyril is a quiet, stoic Anti-Hero who is shell-shocked from his ordeal in Yharnam. Evetta is a sweet living doll who is just as soft-spoken as he is. She opts to care for her Good Hunter and soothe his sickly spirit, for he bears many burdens. Therefore, it is of no surprise that Kyril finds Evetta to be the one person he could be entirely comfortable with, whether it is sharing his pain or expressing affection. As a bonus, their hair colours are used to underline this dynamic (Kyril, dark; Evetta, white). Celestine and Olga discuss this trope in Chapter 23, the former getting teased by the latter for earnestly trying to get her Love Interest Kyril to relax. Indeed, Celestine has been doing that a lot in the story, from how she coaxes Kyril to rest more and wishes the troubled young man to obtain the peace he deserves (preferably with her). On one hand, Kyril appreciates her efforts, admits at one point that she's "highly desirable", and even obliges Celestine's plea to kiss her. On the other hand, he is reluctant to return her affections or start a relationship with her, making this a subverted example. |
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Hamlet and Ophelia from Hamlet could be seen as a deconstruction of the pairing. It is suggested that they were quite close and affectionate before Hamlet's father died. Then, when Hamlet's stress of seeing the ghost of his father gets to him, poor Ophelia is stunned and has no idea how to help him. From then on he's acting mad, and his next scene with her has him denying their relationship ever happened. Then she goes crazy for other reasons… | |
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Gender flipped in RWBY with Blake Belladonna and Sun Wukong. Blake has a very Dark and Troubled Past and feels she alone has to fight against the world's problems and frequently suffers from Heroic BSODs over her various issues. Whenever Sun sees Blake in distress, he often tries to cheer her up, usually to be ignored or coldly dismissed by her. The duet, "Like Morning Follows Night", from their perspectives, delves into this dynamic. Blake questions whether Sun understands what she's been through, and feels like she only causes suffering and tragedy to her loved ones, which is why she tries to keep everybody at a distance. Meanwhile, Sun tries to convince Blake to let go of her past and forgive herself for her mistakes. | |
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In Double Homework, the protagonist is perpetually guilty over a big incident he caused, while Johanna is positive and encouraging. | |
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Downplayed with Steven and Daisy Oak in Pokémon Strangled Red after Miki's death. Their continued relationship is only referred to in passing. | |
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Celestine and Olga discuss this trope in Chapter 23, the former getting teased by the latter for earnestly trying to get her Love Interest Kyril to relax. Indeed, Celestine has been doing that a lot in the story, from how she coaxes Kyril to rest more and wishes the troubled young man to obtain the peace he deserves (preferably with her). On one hand, Kyril appreciates her efforts, admits at one point that she's "highly desirable", and even obliges Celestine's plea to kiss her. On the other hand, he is reluctant to return her affections or start a relationship with her, making this a subverted example. | |
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In Panna a netvor, a Czech adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, Netvor (the Beast) is a bird-like Animalistic Abomination who broods about being neither human nor monster but is increasingly moved by Julie's (the Beauty) kindness and innocence. | |
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The Chaos Cycle: Kai is an angsty loner and werewolf who falls in love with, and starts a romance with friendly Nice Girl Miyu. | |
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In Riverdale, Jughead is a very moody, sardonic and intense boy from the South Side of town who has teamed up with Betty, the kind, compassionate Girl Next Door in order to solve the murder of a local teen. They work very closely together and eventually develop feelings for each other, becoming a couple midway into season 1. | |
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A Waterbending Quirk (Avatar: The Last Airbender and My Hero Academia): Katara and Shoto have this relationship. As a result of his father's draconian methods and obsession with becoming the number one Hero and the effects it had on his family, Shoto is stoic and resentful to his father, while also being very socially awkward around others. Katara, on the other hand, is an All-Loving Hero who believes in Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!, doing what it takes to save others and also being far more social. Nevertheless, the two love each other dearly. | |
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Platonic version between Duncan and Zoey during the fifth season of Total Drama. Duncan is a delinquent with a Hair-Trigger Temper and Hidden Heart of Gold, while Zoey is a Nice Girl who tries to see the best in everyone. | |
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Inverted in the Kaori Route of Tokimeki Memorial 2: the main protagonist there is the Gentle Boy who patiently loves and supports Kaori, the Brooding Girl. The same can be said in the Novelization of that Route, Anata o Shinjiteru, although Shunta Torigoe (who takes the place of the main protagonist there), while having the same dynamic with her, is more energetic. | |
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The White Queen: Richard III and Elizabeth of York. His temperament becomes increasingly saturnine after he becomes king, and when a schism forms between Richard and his wife Anne Neville, the only person who can reach past his gloomy exterior is the kind Elizabeth. | |
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In Prison Island Break, this is the dynamic shared by Shadow and Amy. Shadow is infatuated with her because of how kind and understanding she is, being the only person who tries to reach out and see the good in him. It's also the reason he starts falling for Sonia, whose gentle approach slowly thaws his cold exterior. | |
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In Wellness, this is what Jack and Elizabeth start out believing their relationship will be like, but ends up being an Inverted Trope. While they still curate these personas outwardly, Elizabeth is much more of a brooding personality and Jack is straightforward and optimistic. | |
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Fate of the Clans: Though Cú Chulainn appears happy, he's actually depressed and hates himself a lot on the inside. His wife, Emer, was basically his emotional support. He even admits that without her, he would have completely snapped. Mikoto is the brooding boy, constantly struggling to keep the others safe from himself losing control. Tatara is a male example of a gentle girl, the person who helps "tame the beast" inside Mikoto. |
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The 10,000 Dawns: Robert Brick can get moody at times, in contrast to his more cheerful girlfriend, Sasha Billie. | |
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Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail (Infinity Train & Pokémon: The Series): Lexi the brooding boy and Chloe the gentle girl. Lexi is a book that can detach his papers to a humanoid form, bitter at how Grace and Simon tore him apart and left him Buried Alive within the confines of his car for eight years. Chloe is a ten-year-old girl who has entered the Train in order to reinvent herself and is kind-hearted and gentle and slowly losing her shyness to embrace her likes. As one reader noted, the two of them are supportive of one another as the former is quick to give Chloe a well-needed confidence boost while Chloe is making sure to reign in Lexi's temper against the Apex. In the same vein, Trip and Ash obtain a relationship like this. Trip is the stoic Unovan Trainer and Ash is the kind All-Loving Hero. However as the story goes on, Ash is going through a Guilt Complex over how he failed to be more supportive of Chloe while Trip is the one reeling him in and telling Ash that it's not his fault. |
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The Homestuck fic armor portrays Karkat and Nepeta as this. | |
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Rodion and Sonya from Crime and Punishment, with Rodion as the broody protagonist and Sonya as the downtrodden but nonetheless gentle prostitute. | |
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In My Huntsman Academia (My Hero Academia & RWBY): Izuku and Blake form a gender-inverted version of this trope. Blake is brooding, anti-social, and paranoid due to her fear of being judged for being a faunus and her Dark and Troubled Past as a former member of the White Fang. Her belief that she's a coward and a fraud gives her a great deal of self-loathing. Izuku is a gentle and trusting soul who offers her constant companionship and comfort, finding nothing but good things to say about her despite his own Heroic Self-Deprecation. He also gives her an outlet to vent about her frustrations and tell her secrets without fearing reprisal, promising to act as her Secret-Keeper for as long as she desires. But some of his attempts to cheer her up end up just embarrassing her, like when he's encouraging her to ask out wonderful guy she's apparently interested in when it's fairly clear to everyone except Izuku that she's talking about him. | |
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Melody gives the option of pairing the protagonist with Becca - a relationship that fits this dynamic. | |
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The Grinning Man: Dea is the Gentle Girl to Grinpayne's Brooding Boy | |
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In Turning Red, this is Gender-Inverted. Ming is very high-strung and repressing decades of mommy issues. Jin is patient, sweet, and supportive. | |
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Adam Taurus and Eirian Esna from AZRE. Adam is a deeply troubled young man who's constantly haunted by the mistakes of his past, feeling embittered by his treatment at the hands of racist humans and no longer believes in the same dream as his family; that Faunus and Humans could live together in peace. Eirian is a happy-go-lucky girl who always looks on the bright side of any situation, even if it negatively impacts her. She constantly tries to bring Adam out of his depressed moods and gives him advice on how to deal with it all, showing great care for her close friend. | |
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Fifty Shades of Grey has broody and troubled Christian Grey and sweet, submissive Anastasia. | |
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Cross Ange The Knight Of Hilda: Inverted with Rio as the gentle boy to Hilda's brooding girl. | |
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Maleficent has a non-romantic, gender-flipped version, a bit understated by their frequent Snark to Snark Combats. Maleficent is the brooding, bitter, angst-ridden Byronic Heroine and Diaval is the gentle Nice Guy offering her emotional support. While he is not the one to prompt her full Heel–Face Turn, he does encourage her helping Aurora and bonding with her, which leads to Maleficent turning good again. | |
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In Smallville, Clark's female companions/love interests tend to play this role to his brooding boy on his bad days: Lana Lang, Chloe Sullivan, and Lois Lane have all played this role at various times, and Lois ends up being the one who helps him move out of his formerly brooding ways completely by the end. | |
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A rare platonic version between Carly Beth and Steve in the Goosebumps book The Haunted Mask as well as its sequel. Steve is a bully with a heart of gold who loves to play tricks on Carly Beth (Brooding Boy) while Carly Beth is a Shrinking Violet who gets scared easily (Gentle Girl). In the TV series, Steve admits that he only teases Carly Beth because he likes her. | |
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The Vampire Diaries: Stefan and Elena. Stefan is the mysterious, brooding vampire who falls in love with Elena, the sweet, cheerful girl next door, who often makes Stefan crack a smile. When Damon takes a break from being the Deadpan Snarker to rival his brother for the brooding championship, Elena plays this to him as well. Anna and Jeremy definitely fit here. While she is more of an Abhorrent Admirer at first, their eventual dynamic, especially after her death fits this trope down to a T. |
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Makoto Naegi and Kyouko Kirigiri in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc are a Genderflipped version. After Kirigiri spends the majority of the game unable to trust anyone and feeling she has to take on the mystery alone, Naegi tells her You Are Not Alone and she just slightly begins to open up to him by the end of the third chapter. After he goes so far as to take the fall for her in the fifth chapter, she decides to trust him completely as True Companions. Finally, when she seemed closest to the edge of a Despair Event Horizon in the final trial, he saves her from that despair, leading to the remaining students finally escaping. | |
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Hellsister Trilogy: Dev-Em is a brooding, surly boy; his girlfriend Kara is a kind-hearted, sunny girl. | |
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Steven Universe has Lars as the grumpy and extremely insecure Brooding Boy to Sadie's friendly and nurturing Gentle Girl. | |
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Zootopia: Judy's emotional support and faith in Nick inspires him to believe in himself again and become the first fox police officer. This soon gets deconstructed pretty hard; while Judy is optimistic, idealistic, and supportive of Nick, she isn't perfect and her own flaws bring trouble to their relationship. Her subconscious bias regarding predators flares up during a public interview that almost ruins their friendship and causes considerable hardship in the eponymous city. | |
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Twilight (2005): Edward "This is the skin of a KILLER!" Cullen and Bella. In New Moon, however, gender-flipping this is what kicks off the Jacob/Bella relationship, with him being the gentle guy to Bella's "My boyfriend dumped me so my life is over" brooding. | |
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Jagger and Karen on General Hospital. Repeated a few years later with Stone and Robin, then a year after that with Jason and Robin (brain damage left him unable to express any emotion, so her getting him to laugh/cry/show love was a huge feat. | |
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Batman and Catwoman, although Catwoman is downplayed as she's an anti-heroine while Batman plays it straight. | |
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Clare and Eli from Degrassi: The Next Generation. Clare is a sweet, mostly innocent Christian girl, and Eli drives a hearse. | |
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) has a Kaiju version of this trope in Godzilla and Mothra—Godzilla is as grumpy and aggressive as ever, but he shows a sweeter side around Mothra, who is depicted as the Martial Pacifist Team Mom of the Kaiju and is especially loyal and kind to Godzilla himself. | |
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The Magic School Bus: Arnold and Phoebe in the episode "Goes Cellular". Arnold was understandably moody and angsty, as he was orange on the night he was accepting a big geology award. Phoebe, on the other hand, stayed optimistic and even tried to help mask his orange skin… with flour. | |
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From Garfield and Friends, Gender Flipped version, Orson Pig and Lanolin Sheep in the U.S.Acres segments. Orson has given her a lot of kindness, so Lanolin at times, tries to show kindness back to him. | |
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In Daughter for Dessert, the jaded protagonist who is weighed down by secrets can be paired with Lily, a free spirit who is never blunt. | |
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Subverted in Wuthering Heights: Cathy is far from gentle, but instead just as fierce and rugged at heart as the brooding Heathcliff himself. Though she's not evil like him, she's also definitely morally gray, being selfish, abusive, capricious and very much a jerkass. Isabella Linton thinks she's evoking this trope when she marries Heathcliff, but her delusion is brutally deconstructed. | |
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The Secret Life of the Backyard Kids: Jorge and Angela. The former is a rich kid with a lot of issues, the latter is a Naïve Everygirl who thinks he's cute. Their conversation in Chapter 7 really drives it home. | |
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Teen Titans (2003): Robin is far more serious and moody than his not-girlfriend Starfire, particularly whenever Robin gets laser-focused on stopping Slade. It's generally up to her to brighten his day with her cheer or give him a gentle and well-meaning What the Hell, Hero?. Kid Flash and Jinx are a Gender Flipped version because she is gloomy over being walking-bad-luck and focused on her Villain Cred while he is very patient in his attempts at her Heel–Face Turn (and making her teammates look like idiots with his antics). Beast Boy and Raven are another gender flip. Even though they never have an official relationship on the show, Raven's troubled backstory mixed with Beast Boy's attempts at making her smile and laugh make them appear as such. |
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This is almost ubiquitous in any TV series-based fanfiction starring Beth Greene and Daryl Dixon as the power couple, which skyrocketed in popularity (and amazingly has remained the most popular het ship in the fandom on Archive of Our Own) after "Still". Their canon backstories fit the dynamic to a T. Beth Greene is almost always portrayed as the sweet blonde virginal farmgirl from a slightly higher class. Daryl Dixon is the scarred manly hot-headed celibate guy with an abusive past who likes wearing an angel wing vest. In pretty much all of them, she is the key that opens up Daryl's heart, normally symbolized by him allowing her to see his scars (which he tends to hide in canon). Bonus points if it's complete with at least one Scar Survey after he takes her virginity. Extra if it's a Hurt/Comfort Fic. | |
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On NCIS, Agent Jacqueline "Jack" Sloane is slipping into the Gentle Girl role to Gibbs' Brooding Boy. As a fellow Shell-Shocked Veteran with her own demons to contend with, she understands him in ways very few people ever can, and he knows she understands him. Her inherent gentleness, compassion, and lack of judgment mean she can coax him out of his dark moods when no one else can, and he will turn to her when he wouldn't turn to anyone else. | |
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Danganronpa: Makoto Naegi and Kyouko Kirigiri in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc are a Genderflipped version. After Kirigiri spends the majority of the game unable to trust anyone and feeling she has to take on the mystery alone, Naegi tells her You Are Not Alone and she just slightly begins to open up to him by the end of the third chapter. After he goes so far as to take the fall for her in the fifth chapter, she decides to trust him completely as True Companions. Finally, when she seemed closest to the edge of a Despair Event Horizon in the final trial, he saves her from that despair, leading to the remaining students finally escaping. Hajime Hinata and Chiaki Nanami in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair play it straight. Hajime's a rather cynical, withdrawn, and snarky guy brooding over the mystery of his forgotten talent, and Chiaki's a sweet, sleepy, and mellow girl whom he grows to trust in and confide the most. Her execution in the fifth trial for an Accidental Murder throws him into a Heroic BSoD, and he's left floundering emotionally, spiraling deeper and deeper into despair until her ghost appears to lift him up in the sixth trial. |
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In The Loud House x Beauty and the Beast AUs that have Luan as Belle and Benny as the Beast, the latter is portrayed as a lonely and self-loathing Jerk with a Heart of Gold while the former is portrayed as a kind and friendly Nice Girl who brings out the best in him. | |
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Eventually it seems to be Rolf Carlé and Eva's dynamics in Eva Luna. Not that she has not lived her woes, but he's the one most traumatized after going through Hell in World War II. One of their most iconic scenes has Rolf explaining said WWII woes as well as how his mentally-handicapped sister died in a psych ward, and Eva turns the sad story into a more hopeful one to re-write the circumstances and offer him solace. | |
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Trolls: Branch and Poppy respectively. Poppy being the upbeat optimistic Cutie she is, with Branch being the moody grump of the Troll species. Though Branch does have a Freudian Excuse for his attitude, because his singing got his grandmother eaten when he was a child. | |
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Lance and Ilana from Sym-Bionic Titan, although their relationship is more familial and platonic than romantic. | |
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A Triangle in the Stars (Gravity Falls & Steven Universe): Though both boys, Bill is definitely brooding, and Steven is gentle, helping the triangle through his troubles. And sometimes, especially later, it's swapped and Bill helps back in his own way.* This is completely platonic. Gender Flipped and Downplayed with Steven and Connie, unlike in the show proper. It's especially highlighted in Chapter Forty-Six, where Connie can't even play Citchen Calamity because Bill was sitting right across from her, whereas Steven thoroughly enjoyed every minute. |
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Played with in Matchu. Matchu and Amber fit the bill personality-wise but are also Star-Crossed Lovers who can't interact without something bad happening to either of them. | |
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Baśń O Ludziach Stąd has a brooding, angsty, loner girl end up with a boy who aimed for adorkable and overshot by a couple hundred metres. | |
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Forbidden: Maya and Lochan have this dynamic. They share the burden of taking care of their family (which is the same family) and so they're both somewhat brooding, but Lochan has the additional burden of social anxiety, and Maya helps ease that. | |
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CLANNAD: Tomoya and Nagisa. His father Naoyuki and Asuko in Clannad: The past path. |
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Downplayed in Off the Page and into Life. Most of the time, Gail is willing to gently talk Henry out of one of his moods… but if that doesn't work, she's just as happy to use shouting and snarkiness, too. | |
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A Bridge Once Broken (Marvel Cinematic Universe & Wakfu): Loki is a brooding, PTSD-ridden, Broken Ace boy to Jahanna's gentle, loving girl. | |
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Same-gender example in The Heroes of Olympus and The Trials of Apollo. Nico is the son of Hades, the god of the underworld, and has had a fittingly troubled life. He's a black-haired, brooding loner who tends to drive people away with his general aura of death. Will, on the other hand, is the son of Apollo, the god of music, healing, and the sun. He's blond, optimistic, an accomplished healer, and one of the few people who can get Nico out of his shell. | |
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Pixie and Brutus: Brutus presumably saw a lot of nasty things in his military career and continues to be fairly dark and gruff. Pixie is a sweet little kitten who tries to make friends with everybody, happily offers to share her bed with Brutus, and apologizes for pouncing (which she's apparently unaware is too minor to hurt). | |
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Superboy and M'gann in Young Justice (2010) have this dynamic through the first season, with M'gann frequently being the one to coax him out of angry outbursts or sullen moods. Over the course of the season, however, it became more and more apparent that many aspects of M'gann's "gentle girl" persona were cultivated as part of her Stepford Smiler act (and that she was deliberately modelling at least parts of her and Conner's relationship on a relationship she watched on a sitcom). Over time, as M'gann grew more accepting of her true self, the more overt "gentle girl" traits faded into the background, while Conner developed more self-control over his temper and became better at regulating his own emotions. By season three, they've moved past this dynamic altogether, just in time to hand it off to newcomers Brion and Violet, although Violet, while possessing a female body, does not strictly consider herself to be a girl (but seems okay with female pronouns). | |
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The Crow: Eric is a more serious, dark, angsty guy while Shelly is a light, cheerful lady. | |
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This is the dynamic between Jester and Caleb in season 2 of Critical Role, with Liam (Caleb) even noting on a Talk Machina episode that the Sad one is soft for the sunshine one. | |
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Legion of Super-Heroes: Brainiac-5 is a brooding genius with no social skills, and his Love Interest Supergirl is a cheerful and gentle girl who is one of the few persons able to brighten up his day (and put up with his foul moods for longer than five minutes). | |
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Hope for the Heartless (The Black Cauldron fanfic) gives us a non-romantic version in the Horned King and Avalina. The Horned King is a monstrous and centuries old warlord who has been half-forced on a Redemption Quest he doesn't believe he can fulfill. Under his cold and scary mask he's lonely, desperate and tired. His aura of Death causes all living creatures to fear him on instinct and the plant life to die in his presence. Also, he's prone to sarcastic humor. Avalina is a teenaged brush farmer who's as beautiful as she's pure. Her aura of Life is so strong that she can bring life to the Horned King's lands, befriend a gwythaint and a mad-out-of-grief horse of a knight, get inside the Horned King's shell and bring his centuries-long dead heart back to life. They're also the case of an Intergenerational Friendship, though the Horned King has shades of being a Parental Substitute towards Avalina. | |
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Hajime Hinata and Chiaki Nanami in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair play it straight. Hajime's a rather cynical, withdrawn, and snarky guy brooding over the mystery of his forgotten talent, and Chiaki's a sweet, sleepy, and mellow girl whom he grows to trust in and confide the most. Her execution in the fifth trial for an Accidental Murder throws him into a Heroic BSoD, and he's left floundering emotionally, spiraling deeper and deeper into despair until her ghost appears to lift him up in the sixth trial. | |
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Rose and the Ninth Doctor from Doctor Who are a pretty archetypical example. Later, Clara Oswald has this effect on both the Eleventh Doctor (when an incarnation of Clara coaxes a brooding Eleven out of self-imposed retirement) and the Twelfth (where Clara "prime" becomes his Morality Chain and The Heart of their relationship). | |
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Child of the Storm has this between Harry and Carol towards the end of the first book and at points in the sequel. However, it's a little unusual in that Carol is a spiky cynic (albeit much kinder than she initially appears, especially to Harry), has many issues of her own, and while she's perfectly happy to listen to Harry and comfort and counsel him when he's suffering from, say, a nasty case of PTSD in the sequel, she's also perfectly happy to give him a kick up the arse if he's wallowing. It's also sometimes Gender Flipped, with Carol having plenty of reasons of her own to brood, and Harry being compassionate to a fault and head over heels in Courtly Love with her (until chapter 46 when they finally get together). | |
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Love Letters to the Dead: It looks like this will be the case with Sky and Laurel, with Sky being mysterious and Laurel being shy and sweet. However, these roles are flipped when it becomes apparent that Laurel is far more troubled than she first appears, and Sky tries his best to help her through her emotional turmoil. | |
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Subverted in Crepuscule with Setz and Carne. They certainly look the part, but as time goes on, it becomes evident that though Setz has his issues, he's at least trying to cope; once Carne's problems come to light, she's far more unstable. It doesn't take too long before their positions are swapped: Setz is the one who has to reassure the mentally ill Carne and ultimately try to save her when she goes insane. It doesn't end well. | |
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Silverbolt and Blackarachnia in the Beast Wars's Sequel Series Beast Machines. This is a reversal of how their relationship started: he was a painfully earnest Knight in Shining Armor, she was a snarky Dark Action Girl. In the sequel series, however, he gets brainwashed into being a sadistic villain and is pretty traumatized by it when he's finally freed. He doesn't act like his old self again until the Grand Finale. | |
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Jasper in Deadland: Jasper is downcast and reserved as a result of his hard life, whereas Agnes is gentle and optimistic in an attempt to convince him and herself that his life can still be fulfilling. | |
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Ajnabee: Raj is quiet and reserved compared to Priya's upbeat and bubbly personality. This is Gender-Inverted for Vicky and Sonia, with him being fun-loving and loud while she's calm and reserved which is why Vicky later proposes they do a "wife swap". | |
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Angsty social outcast Haru and cheerful optimist Nami in Tadgifauna. Though Nami gets a hell of a lot less cheerful after learning Haru cheated on her. | |
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Entrapta and Hordak in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, with the former often encouraging the latter to see that his imperfections are beautiful. Their relationship often crosses over with Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl. | |
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The Sandman (1989): Dream and Death are this. Ironically, Dream is the brooding one as he is constantly caught up in his responsibilities and the issues that result from them. Death, on the other hand, is a Perky Goth who is constantly upbeat, kindhearted, and ready to listen to Dream and offer support as his big sister. | |
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Veronica Mars had Logan and Hannah during season 2. | |
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Finding Snowflakes: Subverted. The guy, who is usually stoic and reserved, has a relatively positive outlook towards life whereas the resident Genki Girl is actually really a closet cynic. | |
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Pokémon Reset Bloodlines has Red and Yellow as this. Red generally acts in a quiet, subdued manner, and he seems very unhappy, mostly by choice. Yellow is the one who does the talking for him, has a more cheerful and friendly attitude, and spends a lot of time and effort trying to get him to come out of his shell. Though their relationship seems more brother-sisterly-like which is probably a good thing since they're strongly implied to be half-siblings. | |
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Guys Being Dudes has a male-on-male example with Spark, who serves as a softer and more outwardly affectionate counterpart to Arlo's Emo villain with a troubled past and difficulties showing affection. | |
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In Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues, glimpses of the future have shown the moody, anti-social Simon in a relationship with Mirielle, a gentle baker's girl. Though said relationship falls apart when Simon leans too much towards the dark side, subjugating and detaining Mirielle's superpowered friends. In the present, it's shown that Simon has taken an interest in Mirielle's oddly cheerful personality. | |
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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie has grumpy and temperamental Dean Bitterman Mr. Krupp and kind and gentle Shrinking Violet Edith. | |
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Caederyn and Allene in Spitfire. Caederyn is trying desperately to be The Wise Prince and live up to his father's legacy; he's constantly conscious of wanting to ''deserve'' the authority he's been endowed with by birth. Allene, though no less thoughtful and intelligent than Caederyn, has a much sunnier disposition and is far more social. | |
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Maribat AU has the crossover ship of Marinette Dupain-Cheng, the All-Loving Hero Ladybug, and Damian Wayne, former child assassin and current Robin. | |
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Almost all the Katawa Shoujo routes have elements of this and will bring up three big-ass deconstructions of the concept: Hisao/Lilly: He broods because he has just found out that he has a severe heart condition and has just arrived to a totally different world, she's gentle and an Onee-sama despite her blindness. Their relationship helps Hisao open up and become happier, but doesn't do the same for Lilly. This, and Hisao's overdependence on her, nearly destroys their relationship—he will be reluctant to voice his objections to her leaving for Scotland despite how it will make both of them unhappy and she really doesn't want to leave, and "trusting Lilly's judgement" on it will tear them apart. Hisao/Hanako: A gender-flipped example, where Hisao tries to support Hanako since she not only is a Shrinking Violet but has very serious self-image issues due to being Covered in Scars. If Hisao goes overboard, he'll go from Gentle Guy to "white knight", and since Hanako also has issues with being pitied she will end up screaming at him in their Bad Ending, calling him out on what she views as Hisao "using" her to make himself look good. Hisao/Rin: Another gender-flipped example, with Hisao playing the part of the Cloud Cuckoo Landers Minder to Rin's Cloudcuckoolander/Mad Artist. Taking care of a person with serious emotional and mental issues, and one who's under heavy pressure as well, can be incredibly draining; one small mistake can either make the "caretaker" give up after the first fight or not be able to stop the other person from destroying themself. |
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In The Bad Sleep Well, Koichi and Yoshiko Nishi take on these respective roles. Koichi is quiet but full of emotional turmoil, and Yoshiko is a gentle, physically disabled ingenue whom he falls in love with after marrying her. | |
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John Sheridan and Delenn on Babylon 5—he doesn't want to burden her with his problems and thinks he has to do it all himself. She disabuses him of that notion rather quickly. | |
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The Naekawa Project gender-inverts this trope with the relationship between Toko Fukawa and Makoto Naegi. Toko is the Brooding Babe, as a lifetime of parental abuse and bullying in school has wrecked her self-esteem and body image and left her with social anxiety and a Serial Killer split-personality. By contrast, Makoto is the Gentle Guy, as a loving family and an upbeat personality makes him a naturally kind, friendly, and loving person who sees the best in people and supports them. Their relationship is shown to cause wonders for Toko's mental state, as she is able to slowly start opening up to her boyfriend, and eventual husband, becoming happier as time passes and finding a much better family in the Naegis. | |
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Inception has Dom and Ariadne. The former is a fugitive who is still haunted by the memories of his dead wife, while the latter is the Naïve Newcomer whose more optimistic views help him get through the job and eventually get over his issues. | |
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In The Sunne in Splendour the brooding, introverted Richard of Gloucester falls in love with his good-hearted cousin, Anne Neville. Initially betrothed, their families' feud tears them apart for a time. But when her first husband dies and she's in danger of having her fortune stolen, Richard swoops in and saves her. They are happily married...for a time. | |
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