this is what happens when a show goes on for too long. characters can't change too much because their original appeal is gone. characters can't change too little because the audience gets bored. you need those super special episodes where the character has a breakthrough so you need to reset them to status quo.
But the concept of Flanderization is that the character DOES change in losing most of their aspects in favor of a small few, making the character simplistic.
quagmire comes to mind according to anons. i don't watch nu family guy but it sounds like his entire role is just to react to stuff nowadays and be the straight man as opposed to being a sex pest.
Ice King
Apu
Maybe the characters in The Good Place
The opposite is just character development.
I think I see what he's getting at. It's more like elaborating on a character rather than them developing. They might be essentially the same but we get a better window into their life/mind so their actions are in more context
Any show with a revolving team of writers because characters are written like a game of telephone where their subtlies and intentions become mixed in with your impression of them plus the deadline you need to meet. Whatever thoughtful complexity may have existed at first is turned into a set of characteristics where their chemistry is based off cookie cutter exaggeration of the idea of them rather than what they were.
Flanders
>April is gonna go on unhinged feminist rants.
Thanks Aaron.
Spongebob
Yup, it’s a shame how far it fell.
All Marvel characters in the 00's.
Peridot
this is what happens when a show goes on for too long. characters can't change too much because their original appeal is gone. characters can't change too little because the audience gets bored. you need those super special episodes where the character has a breakthrough so you need to reset them to status quo.
But the concept of Flanderization is that the character DOES change in losing most of their aspects in favor of a small few, making the character simplistic.
How often does the opposite happen? Like have a stupid goofy character and then DEFladerize them?
Out of all the worst though, I keep thinking about Kosmo and Wanda. Great characters that became tropes as time goes on.
You mean character development or character progression? (two different things, btw. Most people talk about one while forgetting the other exists)
quagmire comes to mind according to anons. i don't watch nu family guy but it sounds like his entire role is just to react to stuff nowadays and be the straight man as opposed to being a sex pest.
Nelson? He went from the “ha-ha” bully boy to some kid you’re supposed to feel sorry for.
But it's always the same joke about his mom being a prostitute
Maybe Bubble Bass from Spongebob, though he became the stereotypcial basement dwelling virgin watching cartoons in his basement
The opposite is just character development.
That's usually called character development.
Ice King
Apu
Maybe the characters in The Good Place
I think I see what he's getting at. It's more like elaborating on a character rather than them developing. They might be essentially the same but we get a better window into their life/mind so their actions are in more context
Any show with a revolving team of writers because characters are written like a game of telephone where their subtlies and intentions become mixed in with your impression of them plus the deadline you need to meet. Whatever thoughtful complexity may have existed at first is turned into a set of characteristics where their chemistry is based off cookie cutter exaggeration of the idea of them rather than what they were.
She-Hulk was a flirt but somehow that got morphed into "She sleeps with everybody".
>but somehow
It was Slott
I wasn't gonna say it because people jump down my throat with "She was always a bawd!"
Fairly OddParents, worst in the entire genre.
Explain please
Such a shame
Every character in IDW Sonic