The Manic Pixie Dream Girl

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A term coined by The AV Club's Nathan Rabin to describe hyper-girlish, excessively quirky female love interests to sad-sack, emotionally damaged men in indie films.

For further examples see: Zooey Deschanel's entire career.

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