Manic Pixie Dream Girl
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title:
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
text:
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
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Stock character type
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Pixie_Dream_Girl
date created:
2008-10-10T16:53:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T00:04:29Z
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13
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