what is the male version of a manic pixie dream girl
Manic Pixie Dream Girl Recently there has been discussion of a male version of this trope, the Manic Pixie Dream Boy or Manic Pixie Dream Guy. Augustus Waters from the film version of The Fault in Our Stars (2014) was given this title in a 2014 Vulture article,[37] in which Matt Patches stated, "he's a bad boy, he's a sweetheart, he's a dumb jock, he's a nerd, he's a philosopher, he's a poet, he's a victim, he's a survivor, he's everything everyone wants in their lives, and he's a fallacious notion of what we can actually have in our lives."
In His Eyes Jekyll and Hyde tells the story of a doctor, Jekyll, who, trying to find the basis of good and evil, develops an evil alter ego, Hyde. The song is sung by the two female leads, Lucy and Emma. Emma, Jekyll’s fiancé, is a refined young woman who is reluctant to support her husband’s experiments fearing that he is becoming too involved in the process. Lucy is a prostitute at a gentlemen's club who becomes infatuated with the Hyde persona, eventually resulting in her death.[2] While the two characters are very different, they both love the same man, albeit different personas within the same physicality. In this song, they lament about their separate desires for Jekyll/Hyde to see how much they love him and how their lives have been altered by the man and his experiments. Both women dream about their futures, with or without Jekyll/Hyde. They both, separately, come to the realization that their love for him is much too strong to ever truly break away. In mutual agreement, they recognize that when they look into the eyes of the man they love, they are filled with everything they need to continue on. The song ends with them fully believing that the love they have for Jekyll/Hyde enriches their lives and are committed to doing whatever they can for him.[3]