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

Ruby Sparks From Ruby Sparks

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This one is pretty interesting. Ruby Sparks is another film that dissects and examines the manic pixie dream girl phenomenon. As a fictional character come to life, Zoe Kazan continually resists her one-dimensional origins.

While Ruby does change throughout the course of the film, she isn’t a true representation of the trope, but she does show us how to write the female characters that audiences deserve.