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Symbolically Broken Object

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Something has been broken. It may be a spell, a relationship, a life. Whatever it is, it was important, and now it's been destroyed.
And so has something else.
An excellent way for a writer to demonstrate the destruction of something intangible is to break something tangible. The broken object could be anything, but the symbolism is usually obvious. When Bob and Alice break up, a picture of the two of them is destroyed. When Charlie dies, his prized possession is smashed to bits. When the Big Bad is defeated, his stronghold falls apart.
The extent of the damage to the Symbolically Broken Object frequently indicates the extent of the damage to the thing it symbolizes. If the object has been destroyed beyond repair, there's a good chance that the same is true of whatever else was broken. If the object can be repaired, so can the thing it symbolizes.
Frequently overlaps with Load-Bearing Boss, Insignia Rip-Off Ritual, Wrecked Weapon, and Stab the Picture. Supertrope to Break-Up Bonfire and Let the Past Burn.
Compare Reality-Changing Miniature when one can make the change intentionally with an object that's meant as a representative of a bigger thing, Dying for Symbolism where a living person represents an ideal, and Smash the Symbol where a character intentionally destroys something that symbolizes an ideal for another character.
Contrast It's All Junk where nothing means anything.
See also Tattered Flag, Crush the Keepsake, Dying Candle, Ripping Off the String of Pearls, Empathy Doll Shot, Dead Hat Shot, and Troubled Toybreaker.

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Aquaman (2018): When the soldiers of Atlantis attack the lighthouse with the goal of bringing Atlanna back to Atlantis for trial, thus destroying her happy family, one of them steps on and breaks a framed family portrait of Thomas, Atlanna, and Arthur.
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: After Midna uses the Fused Shadows to fight Ganon one-on-one, the scene cuts to Hyrule Field where she'd teleported Link and Zelda. After a massive explosion shakes the castle, Ganon appears on horseback, holding the Fused Shadow Midna had been wearing as a hat... and crushes it. Cue the last two phases of the final boss fight.
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In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, both Mami's teacup and saucer shatter and are further shown covered in blood, symbolizing her gruesome death by the witch Charlotte
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Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon: Part of the way a Stoutland's death in "One Journey Ends, Another Begins..." is shown is its furniture breaking apart.
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In Lord of the Flies, the destruction of the conch shell symbolizes the breakdown of civilization.
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Wolfwalkers: This is done by Mebh when Robyn tells her to leave the forest with the wolves before the Lord Protector burns it all down, which she sees as Robyn breaking her promise to help her find her mother. She furiously grabs the flower in her hair that Robyn gave her and crushes it in her clenched hand before throwing it away and storming off.
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In the The Magic School Bus fanfic The Life and Times of the Fantasmic Four, just before she leaves Texas for university in North Carolina, Phoebe breaks the head off a toy dinosaur that her ex-boyfriend Arnold had given her in a Noodle Incident years before (later depicted in The Best Chrismukkah Ever) because she's upset that their relationship is over and that she ended it despite the fact that they both still loved each other.
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Sex and the City has an episode where Samantha gets her boyfriend a framed painting of a heart. His reluctance to hang it on his wall symbolises his inability to give her the commitment she wants, and when she later catches him with another woman, she smashes it, explicitly saying "There! Now your heart's broken!".
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When Asuma dies in Naruto, his girlfriend Kurenai's teacup breaks.
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Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: Near the start of the Season 1 finale, Fred accidentally drops his dad's framed photo of Fred's Missing Mom, who was implied to be his father's Lost Lenore... and discovers that it's actually a snipping of a model from a magazine — she isn't Fred's mother. The episode builds up to Fred discovering that his "father" is actually his kidnapper. The promo for the season finale used this shot to help seal the Nothing Is the Same Anymore tone of the episode.
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The Sea Beast: Jacob smashes his spear over his leg to show that he's quitting the monster-hunting business, although it humorously fails to break. Turns out he's got one fight left, against a different kind of monster. He does it again later on, this time successfully.
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Supernatural:
A really bad car wreck leaves Dean comatose and not expected to live. After seeing the Winchesters' badly damaged Impala, Bobby suggests scrapping the car. Sam goes on an emotional, not-at-all subtle rant that if there is even one salvageable piece of the car, he won't give up on it.
After John's death, Dean is working to repair the Impala but can't quite get the car to work like it should. After insisting that he was fine all episode, Dean wails on the car with a crowbar. Anyone who watches the show knows how out of character this is for Dean, but it perfectly represents how helpless and destroyed he feels following his father's death.
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Ralph Breaks the Internet: After Vanellope learns that Ralph unleashed a virus into Slaughter Race out of jealousy, she declares they're not friends anymore and throws the "You're My Hero" medal she gave him into the depths of the Internet, and Ralph finds it broken in half when he goes down to retrieve it. By the end, it's still broken, but now Ralph and Vanellope wear each half as a reminder that they're still friends even though they're apart.
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Sirius gives Harry a magic mirror that will allow them to communicate. Harry tries using it after Sirius' death but it doesn't work, so he throws it in his trunk and it smashes. It later becomes a Chekhov's Boomerang.
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Gulliver's Travels: At the beginning, the kings of Lilliput and Blefuscu are celebrating the upcoming wedding between their respective children, which would unite the two kingdoms. An argument over which nation's anthem should play at the ceremony results in King Bombo of Blefuscu declaring war, and — to drive the point home — he smashes the wedding cake, knocking down the cake toppers representing the prince and princess.
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Subverted in Spy X Family after the disastrous Eden College interview, where a framed family photo of the Forgers suddenly falls down, supposedly indicating that this fake family won't last. However, it's then revealed that the photo is unharmed, instead indicating that despite the hardships they may encounter, they'll still be together. Played straight however in the anime, where among other bad omens foreshadowing them failing the interview, Yor's gold bracelet snaps.
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My Little Pony: A New Generation:
The jewels symbolizing pony unity were separated and scattered long ago as the tribes drifted apart, and bringing them back together is the main driving force of the bulk of the movie.
In the climax, the lighthouse, a beacon of clarity and enlightenment in the darkness, is torn down by Sprout and his war machine.
The broken picture frame of Sunny and her father, which is then fixed by the three leaders of the pony tribes.
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Turning Red: When Mei is preparing to sneak out to Tyler's party, she accidentally breaks a framed picture of herself and her mother Ming, symbolizing the destruction of their old relationship.
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Through the Eyes of Anon-a-Miss: One of the many rifts created by Anon-A-Miss is between Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, who argue over a necklace that used to belong to the latter's late grandmother. Diamond Tiara insists that it was hers all along; when the necklace gets destroyed by one of their fights, the rift between them grows significantly worse.
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At the end of GTO: The Early Years, Nagisa's framed photo of her and Ryuji falls on the floor and breaks just as Ryuji and Eikichi have jumped off a building and (supposedly) died.
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In The Owl House, Amity's mother Odalia has made her wear a necklace ever since childhood that she uses to telepathically spew emotional abuse with Oracle magic. When Amity finally stands up to her, the first thing she does is rip off and crush the necklace to show that she wont let herself be controlled anymore.
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Macross: the protagonist is sitting in hospital amusing himself with a miniature biplane when told his friend/squadron leader is dead. Cue dramatic slow-mo shot of the biplane falling to the floor and breaking.
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In the climactic destruction of the title cities in Sodom and Gomorrah, just as Queen Bera is crushed to death by the collapsing walls of her throne room, the sigil of the two cities, a male torso pointing upwards and a female torso pointing downwards, falls from the wall and shatters on the floor.
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Fushigi Yuugi: In episode 18, Nuriko gives Miaka a special doll, which according to a legend, when a couple's names are written on the doll which is in turn buried in the ground, supposedly makes a couple's love eternal. After having written hers and Tamahome's names on it, Miaka is unnerved to see it break before her very eyes, thinking of it as a bad sign.
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In Mortal Kombat 9, the cracked amulet represents Armageddon: the further it's cracked, the closer it is.
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Book of Exodus: Moses spends a great amount of time in the mountains getting God's rules for the Israelites to adhere to. Bored of waiting, the Israelites creating golden idols to worship, hoping to get insight from their new pagan gods. When Moses returns bearing the two heavy stone tablets inscribed with the commandments, he is appalled to find the Israelites drunkenly celebrating their golden idol and smashes the tablets in outrage.
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The Four Gospels: When Jesus dies during his crucifixion, the veil in the Temple that separates the priests from their parishioners was torn from top to bottom, symbolizing that the priests were no longer the only ones who could pray to God.
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In The Great Ace Attorney, when Kazuma challenges Ryunosuke to prove they were with the murder victim Gregson the night of the latter's murder, Ryunosuke notices a gash to Gregson's metal trunk with a metal fragment embedded inside. It would turn out to be a part of the tip of Kazuma's beloved sword Karuma, showing how far Kazuma had gone to almost murdering someone out of blind rage.
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In The Lord of the Rings, Saruman's staff is broken after his expulsion from the Order of Wizards and White Council.
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In Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, the doll that Roo gives Olive at the beginning gets broken near the end, in the same scene that sees the irretrievable breakdown of Roo and Olive's relationship.
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In The King of Fighters, after Rugal (his nemesis) is confirmed dead, Col. Heidern feels that he can finally move on with his life and he chooses to rip his family photo (Rugal murdered his family back then).
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In Terry Pratchett's Carpe Jugulum, Granny Weatherwax vacates her cottage, leaving everything neatly arranged by threes. Where she has a surplus fourth plate, it is broken and in the bin. Nanny Ogg works out that this is her way of telling the other witches the original three is no more - Granny is represented by the broken plate, whose time is past. The remaining witches have to form a new symbolic triad - Nanny Ogg as the Crone, Magrat Garlick as the Mother, Agnes Nitt as the Maiden.
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Crazy, Stupid, Love: Emily tells Cal she wants a divorce after almost 25 years of marriage. In the very next scene their daughter accidentally breaks a photo frame that holds a picture of them. The crack is between their faces.
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Tarzan has Kala the ape lead Tarzan to the treehouse where Tarzan was found as an infant. On the floor, Tarzan finds a photograph in a broken frame with cracked glass of three humans: himself as an infant, his father, and his mother. The vicious leopard Sabor had killed Tarzan's parents, leaving only himself for Kala to rescue and adopt.
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In Love Anthony, Beth takes down every photograph that includes her philandering husband Jimmy and rips them all to tiny shreds. Her daughters are angry at her for destroying their family pictures but by that point, it's too late.
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Brave:
The tapestry Merida slices in anger explicitly represents the broken bond between her and her mother, the cut going between depictions of the two.
A carving of the four princes was similarly broken when one of them, seeking greater power, turned into the demon bear Mor'du and murdered the other three.
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One Piece invokes this with the Vivre Card, a piece of paper linked to the condition of its owner/creator. It burns and dwindles if that person is weak or in danger, and returns to normal when he's healthy. When a character with a Vivre Card is Killed Off for Real, it's symbolized by the Vivre Card burning into nothing.
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In The Wolf Den, Menander makes a beautiful lamp for Amara as a Saturnalia gift. She attempts to give it back but drops it, shattering it to bits. This symbolizes the breaking of their relationship.
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In The Glass Menagerie, one of Laura's glass animal figurines is broken by her "Gentleman Caller". The figure is a unicorn. Its horn breaks off, making it "just like all the other horses". It's symbolic of Laura herself, who is fragile and special and no one understands her.
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Code Geass: In one Picture Drama, after Nuannally reminisces about a plate that she, Lelouch, and Euphemia looked at, Euphemia is heard on the radio, suddenly the radio is cut off and after that, the plate drops and breaks on the floor.
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The Bible:
Book of Exodus: Moses spends a great amount of time in the mountains getting God's rules for the Israelites to adhere to. Bored of waiting, the Israelites creating golden idols to worship, hoping to get insight from their new pagan gods. When Moses returns bearing the two heavy stone tablets inscribed with the commandments, he is appalled to find the Israelites drunkenly celebrating their golden idol and smashes the tablets in outrage.
The Four Gospels: When Jesus dies during his crucifixion, the veil in the Temple that separates the priests from their parishioners was torn from top to bottom, symbolizing that the priests were no longer the only ones who could pray to God.
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In Son of the Stars, Zhengzheng rips up a photo of herself, her son Xinxin, and her vanished husband. She later tapes it back together.
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In Nana, the breaking of the strawberry glasses represents the breaking of contact between Nana K and Nana O.
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The Happy Prince: The Happy Prince's heart of lead breaks with a loud crack at the same moment that the swallow dies.
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In Babylon 5 when Delenn dissolves the Grey Counsel, she also breaks the staff traditionally held by the leader of the Grey Counsel.
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Clan of the Cave Bear: Mog-ur has a vision of the Clan dying out and the Others taking over the world. When Ayla accidentally breaks the ceremonial bowl Iza uses to prepare one of her potions, Mog-ur sees it as a sign that his vision will come true.
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In Parenthood, enraged over his father abandoning him and his mother, Gary trashes his office and makes a point of destroying a picture of him with his new wife and kids.
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In The Parent Trap, the twin girls each have half of a ripped picture of their divorced parents.
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In The Age of Innocence, Newland and May Archer attend the opera, with her wearing her wedding dress (at the time, it was a tradition for brides to do this during their first year of marriage) and him secretly planning a rendezvous with her cousin Ellen, who he's in love with. When they get home, the train of her dress gets caught on the carriage wheel and ends up torn and soiled, representing what's happening to their marriage.
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After a bitter argument in This Bites! between Tsuru and Sengoku about the morality of the latter's actions (including letting Admiral Akainu escape justice for committing genocide), Tsuru exits Sengoku's office with such force that a picture of her, Sengoku and Garp falls to the floor and shatters, with a crack in the glass separating the two former friends.
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Doctor Who:
In Earthshock, the Doctor has to use Adric's star badge to kill a Cyberman, destroying it in the process. Subsequently, Adric died when the freighter he was stuck in crashed into the primordial Earth. Then they run the Silent Credits over the image of the broken star.
In the episode "Father's Day", when Rose's father is hit by a car we don't see him hit, but rather see the vase he's carrying fall to the ground and break. When Rose saves him, the vase falls but does not break.
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In Ming and Ming, Xiaoming accidentally breaks the glass over a picture of Daming's ex, to his dismay. Later, Daming realizes the relationship is over and throws the picture in the trash.
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In the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story "Papa Smurf & Mama Smurfette", Tapper the village bartender keeps a broken picture of Smurfette on the wall of his tavern as a symbol that Smurfette's choice of marrying Papa Smurf has deeply affected him despite his initial reaction of just letting things be no matter how distasteful they may seem.
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CSI: One episode has a donor liver recipient's watch stop while the man is in surgery. Later, after his body begins rejecting the organ, he tells Nick that his watch knew he would die all along.
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The Grand Finale of Game of Thrones has the Iron Throne itself melted down by dragonfire, symbolizing the end of the Targaryen authority and the war surrounding it.
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[[Safehold: In How Firm a Foundation]], Sailys Trahskhat's lucky baseball bat earned that status because it's the one bat that never broke during a game. When he has to go Batter Up! on three armed rioters threatening to rape and murder his family, he wins the fight but his lucky bat breaks in the process. That fight was the point when Trahskhat changed from a Temple Loyalist exile to a Reformist soldier.
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Scarlet Lady: In "Vanisher", the Akuma object is a brooch that symbolizes Sabrina's friendship with Chloé. In canon, Sabrina looks at it forlornly after it's destroyed; here, however, she doesn't care about it, reinforcing how Sabrina no longer views Chloé as her friend.
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In Halo 4, Master Chief and his rapidly-deteriorating AI Cortana work together to destroy the Big Bad's starship. They succeed in the end, but it takes the last of Cortana's strength to save Chief, even though he was adamant she'd be cured soon. As she vanishes, the starship is seen falling to pieces behind him, representative of his shattered worldview.
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In Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto, when Barbaric Bully Henri is being a racist jerk to Cesare's Jewish best friend, and deriding the duo's home country of Spain for its culture influenced by Islam, saying the Spanish can't be proper Christians because of that, Cesare manipulates him into crashing into a conspicuously placed statue of the Virgin Mary, symbolizing that Henri is the one who's an insult to Christianity, not Cesare's tolerance, anachronistic as it may be (nb: his father the Pope did historically allow refugees from the Inquisition into Rome, so it isn't all that far from the truth).
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In the first Warrior Cats book, upon first joining ThunderClan, kittypet (house cat) Rusty's collar breaks in a fight against Longtail, who had been loudly taunting him about his origins. This is taken as an omen that their ancestors, StarClan, approve of him joining the Clan, and represents that he's left his old life behind.
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Golgo 13: The Professional has Leonard Dawson, in a fit of emotion, smash a picture of his son Robert, whose death at Golgo's hands started the plot. This is because Robert arranged his own assassination, breaking Leonard's heart and leaving him with no one to take vengeance on but the assassin. Even Leonard knows it's meaningless, but he can't bring himself to stop.
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Arknights: The Doctor notices a broken picture frame of two young familiar-looking Lung girls together. You later find out that they're Ch'en and Tallulah, and also learn that they're half-sisters.
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Logan from Almost Perfect has a shoebox full of mementos from his relationship with Brenda. Months after their breakup, he takes out a photo of the two of them that he used to carry in his wallet and rips it to tiny pieces.
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Star Trek: Voyager. In "Year of Hell", Captain Janeway finds her lucky coffee cup has survived the destruction of the Ready Room. Just then the Krenim attack and the cup is knocked off the table and smashes. In the same episode, Annorax keeps a lock of the hair of the wife he accidentally erased from time in a special container that shields it from dissipating into nothing because it can't exist in the world he created. As his vessel is destroyed, he watches helplessly as the container breaks and the hair vanishes from existence.
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The Odd Way Home: After Francine's final argument with her daughter Maya, whom she hated and abused, she throws Maya's childhood doll in the fire. She plans to do the same with every picture of Maya and her father, as she blames Maya for "stealing" her husband by being sexually abused.
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When Aslan returns from the dead in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe the Stone Table splits in half.
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In Wander over Yonder, Dominator destroying a heart-shaped planet represents breaking Hater's heart.
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Gravity Falls: Mabel rips up a photo with her, Candy, and Grenda in the episode "Boyz Crazy" after temporarily breaking up with them. In the next episodes where the photo is shown, it is fixed.
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