Manic Pixie Dream Boys are characterized as 'aloof, mysterious, out of the ordinary creatives who typically appear to look like tortured souls.' In 2005, film critic Nathan Rabin assigned a definition ...

In recent years, however, the male counterpart to the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, a term created by A.V. Club writer Nathan Rabin in 2007, has made waves in popular culture: the Manic Pixie Dream Boy.

Critic Nathan Rabin first coined the term “manic pixie dream girl” to describe a young woman whose whimsy exists solely as a catalyst for change for the leading man. While he used it in reference to ...

The Manic Pixie Dream Girl 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. The ...