A List Of Every Manic Pixie Dream Girl To Convince You That We Really Don’t Need Any More Of Them

Clementine From Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

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All it takes is one look at Clementine’s constantly changing hair color to recognize her as manic pixie dream girl material.

But Clementine knows how we see her— how Joel sees her. Eternal Sunshine was critiquing the manic pixie trope before the term even existed. Consider Clementine’s epic line, “Too many guys think I’m a concept, or I complete them, or I’m gonna make them alive. But I’m just a ******-up girl who’s looking for my own peace of mind. Don’t assign me yours.”