**TL;DR: The manic pixie dream girl trope is anti-feminist.** Even if you aren't aware exactly what a manic pixie dream girl is, I can guarantee that you've come across at least one in either popular novels, TV, or movies. The manic pixie dream girl, according to [The Take] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_gxo8l9j8s), is a woman who is 'quirky, impulsive and plays by her own set of rules'. Often written by men to meet the male gaze, the manic pixie dream girl is problematic as her uniqueness and quirky personality derives from the male ideal of meeting a 'not like other girls' girl - someone who is different to other women and dresses eccentrically, listens to 'underground' bands, and has a weird and often childlike sense of humour. The manic pixie dream girl serves a desire to fix the lives of the men who fall in love with her, and change them forever into a better person. To name a few examples, _Scott Pilgrim vs. The World's_ Ramona Flowers, Natalie Portman's character Sam in _Garden State_ and Kirsten Dunst in _Elizabethtown_ are just a few of the manic pixie dream girl in popular Hollywood film productions. As [Verve] (https://medium.com/verve-up/everything-wrong-with-the-manic-pixie-dream-girl-50aea4d427e0) argue, the manic pixie dream girl solely exists 'as a channel for a man's self-expression'. Therefore, her originality and all of the things that make her unique, actually aren't unique and interesting at all, as she is merely just conforming to male fantasies. In more recent years, producers and filmmakers are actually creating characters that are self-aware versions of the manic-pixie dream girl, which subverts the male fantasy. A great example is Cassie from [Skins] (https://www.flavorwire.com/405387/how-skins-quietly-rejected-the-manic-pixie-dream-girl-archetype) who at first is presented as overly whimsical and odd to fit this stereotype, but after delving more into the series, we learn that Cassie actually has serious mental health issues that are not to be glamorized or confused with 'quirkiness' in the slightest.