 Manic Pixie Dream Girl

A Manic Pixie Dream Girl (MPDG) is a stock character type in films.Film critic Nathan Rabin, who coined the term after observing Kirsten Dunst's character in "Elizabethtown" (2005), said that the MPDG "exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures."