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>one-off character the writers intended as a plot device and

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>one-off character the writers intended as a plot device and never had any intention of using again
>fanbase becomes obsessed with this character, waifus it, draws porn of it, and thinks it should be the center of the show
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>>89367461
Example?
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Giraffe lady
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>>89367547
Starting with the obvious.
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>>89367461
They shouldn't have made her hot, if they didn't want people to keep asking about her.
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>>89367636
To be fair, it did actually seem like they were going to make her into a future villain someone on the main cast was going to have to deal with.
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>Was on screen for less than 10 seconds
>Didn't even have a single line of dialogue
>Metric ton of fanart, porn, fics, and even high quality edits like this.
I'm fucking baffled why people care about this "character".
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>>89367715
Really? You're "baffled"?
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>>89367715
The idea of her being a rival to Lori drew /tlhg/ fans towards her.
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Uh, yes, but where are the Nachos?
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The Simpsons has a billion of them.
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>>89367547
Arrow?
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>>89367823
Right there.
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>>89367850
Yeah, but that`s a problem of:
>Make great minor character that could and should be used again
>Isn`t used again because voice actor is too expensive or busy.
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>>89367947
I don't think there was any further direction they could have gone with Jessica Lovejoy.
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>>89368067
Okay, I'll admit, I support this one. But to be fair, she has been in at least 2 episodes and mentioned in more.
I'm also pretty sure Savino meant the relationship between the two as a kind of Charlie Brown homage of the Little Red Haired Girl.
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>>89367715
This pretty much goes with Maggie as well.
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>>89367962
>>89367850
Jessica at least was a cool/badass character. I can't figure out why this one is a fan favorite. She had essentially no personality and besides, Yeardley Smith literally even said on the DVD commentary that she was a plot device and not a character.
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>>89368402
yeardley is kind of an idiot though. she rarely says anything interesting or funny on DVD commentaries
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>>89368766
Cartoon staffers generally don't see the world or their show the same way or in the same context as Internet neckbeards.
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>>89368402
I guess Allison is cute and /u/ shipping.
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Hurts me to say it
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>>89369434
It shouldn't even hurt you. I rewatched the original trilogy the other day and was like "WTF do we care about Boba Fett again?" Because he crosses his arms like a boss and had a couple of ladies draped over him that one time?
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>>89368402
I felt that she had more potential to develop as a character than Jessica.
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>>89369579
Cool armor, jetpack, cool ship, all what you said

Had that mysterious guy thing going for him

He's pretty cool
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>>89367636
>>89367712
yeah in her case it definitely seemed like they were setting things up for her to be a recurring character
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>>89369434
Too be fair, Star Wars has a dozen such characters
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>>89369655
People bought figures and statues of Captain Phasma before the movie released

At least Boba Fett got to shoot his fucking gun and fly around a little bit
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That punk girl in Dexter's Lab.
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>>89369629
They should have Jessica come back, but she's reformed and is now a nice person and a good student who looks down on Bart for still being a juvenile delinquent.
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>Character is popular because of an animation mistake.
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>>89367547
Steve Urkel
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>>89369875
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>>89367598
It seems like people miss the point of this character.
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>>89367461
Velvet
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>>89367736
woah tittes
me like titties
therefore, me like character
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>>89369499
fuck outta here, loser
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>>89369875
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>>89369875
>Character is popular because of an animation mistake.
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>>89369875
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>>89369687
It's fucking strange how much they centered the marketing campaign around her when she was barely even a character. She was less consequential than that guy who got force choked in the meeting room in ANH.
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>>89369875
>>89369943
>>89371094
>>89371139
>>89371148
What? What is he talking about?
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>>89369687
I think her scenes got cut.
I thought I remembered reading her role was to hunt down Finn after he escaped
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>>89371179
A popular background character from MLP:FiM called Derpy Hooves. She became a fan favorite because an animation error gave her wonky eyes.
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>>89371208
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>>89367461
Not a one off although she should have been. but Lord Dominator.
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>>89367461
I mean, I wouldn't want her to be the center of the show, but it would've been nice to see more of her.
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>>89371676
I'll always have a soft spot for her original design.
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>>89367461
I can't be the only one that remembers Rachel
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Some people wanted a male love interest for Gumball that he wasn't related to and hoped this could be it.
The character was never named and never spoke, and was pretty much never seen again.
One person still drew a ton of fanart of Gumball doing cutesy romantic stuff with him.
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>>89367598
She was a pretty nice character, though
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>>89372265
Why did you post a blank image anon?
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Fits the description perfectly
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>>89372323
post some
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>>89372323
Good. Gumball x Darwin would have been a better male love interest anyways even though they are legally related.
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>>89369875
DELET
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>>89372323
I don't remember this and Gumball is like the only cartoon I watch nowadays. Was this during season one or what?
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>>89371193
Wasn't she supposed to be the "TRAITOR!" guy?

Supposedly she's going to have more screentime in the sequel.
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>>89372650
Ironically, Hot Dog Guy was showing up in the backgrounds as far back as season one, and ended up getting this episode

>>89372703
This was one episode of season one. I think it was the first episode after a hiatus so there was time to overthink it
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>>89367598

Who's drawing porn of Amy?
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>>89372581
I don't have any, hopefully somebody else does, I'd like to see it again myself
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>>89367636

There are no superfluous characters in the Venture Bros, just plot threads they haven't covered yet.
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>>89372703
I should add, the dog is just one member of a synchronized swimming team that Gumball tries out for, and swimming isn't even the main focus of the episode, just a small digression
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>>89369434
>>89369687

The Holy Trinity of overrated Star Wars characters.
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>>89367461
Trixie
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>>89373003
Clearly the one in FOP was intended to be a recurring character so I know who you are talking about.
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>>89373003
>>89373051
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>>89369579
Well, he was really memorable in the Christmas Special. That was his first appearance to boot.
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>>89372986
To be fair, he actually killed a Jedi master. And that Jedi master was Liam Neeson.
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>>89371676
I dunno. Her second episode was lackluster compared to the soul crushing yet amazing 1st.

If the Ventriloquist can get a happy ending, why couldn't she?
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>>89373003
>>89373051
If anything, Trixie hasn't been properly utilized in years.
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>>89372772
>Wasn't she supposed to be the "TRAITOR!" guy?

Never heard of that, but it would make sense
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>>89371208
>an animation error gave her wonky eyes.
The eyes were done on purpose by an overseas animator.
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>>89367736
But those things are so fucking tiny.
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>>89372133
>tfw the writers will never end her story because of the show's abrupt cancellation
Aunt Grandma's a recurring character, anon. She was just used sparingly.
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>>89374782
Another example: Lisa is widely believed to be naked (but anatomically incorrect) here. In truth, the director (David Silverman) always intended for her to being a body stocking, but the Korean animators never bothered to color it in, apparently because they couldn't see any problem with a little bit of innocent childhood nudity.
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>>89367461
I was actually surprised to find this character was so popular.
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>>89371087
Is this supposed to be a bad line of thinking?
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>>89374782
Another example: Lisa is widely believed to be naked (but anatomically incorrect) here. In truth, the director (David Silverman) always intended for her to be wearing a body stocking, but the Korean animators never bothered to color it in, apparently because they couldn't see any problem with a little innocent childhood nudity.
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>>89374881
>>89374943
>>89375011
>>89375138
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbgpTaD0IsQ
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>>89372986
You clearly haven't watched clone wars or rebels
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>>89375138
>>89375011
CAN'T YOU SEE I'M EASILY BOTHERED BY PERSISTENCE
ONE STEP FROM LASHING OUT AT YOU
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>>89367461
The redheaded girl with the gigantic ass from the new Pixar short
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>>89372265
The Gumball crew didn't like her.

So she went into absolute obscurity in the cartoon, only having some minor cameo appearances.
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>>89375358
That was a disney short you narc
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>>89369434
Boba Fett has a cool design, but he is largely inconsequential to the plot beyond being Jabba's delivery boy. Now I'm not a fan of breaking down character roles in movies, but I dont get how people raise him into this weirdly fetishzised badass of a character, that while imposing wasn't all that hard to defeat in the end. There are loads of cool super minor characters (like the rest of the bounty hunters) and I'm not saying expandign upon these minor characters is, bad, its sort of unique and cool how nearly anyone that appears on screen in a star wars movie gets more thought and story put into them later (Im personally looking forward to what happens with Sidon Ithano) But people that care more about Fett then the Skywalker family confuse the hell out of me.
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>>89375664
It's the helmet. A cool helmet makes a character stick out in people's minds, so they latch onto him.

It probably helps that back in the early days of Star Wars Boba had some time to build up a mythos or fan club or what have you before he got sand vagina'd.

I'm more of an IG-88 man myself.
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>>89367547

Mrs. Kattswell

>5 seconds of screentime
>shitload of porn

ugly fat cat mom ffs, why? It wasn't even her!!
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>>89375243
Which they wouldn't have turned up in if not for popularity
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>>89371089
He probably meant to post Senor Cardgage
or Homsar
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Not a one-off character per se, but she did always just seem like a plot device to get the Simpsons to China.
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>>89375707
Thats a fair point, though I feel like that Boba fan club didn't really start until the 90's, possible because there was a book trilogy that revived him?

I'm a fan of Bossk myself, though I think 4-Lom and Zuckess could overtake him if they were used more.
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>>89375803
Yeah, 4-Lom and Zuckess really were wasted characters. I'd love a side story where a bunch of bounty hunters get to cut loose.
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>>89372417
She was one of the major parts of book 4 though.
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>>89369687
Phasma was specifically designed to be one of the characters OP is talking about. Thing is if you intentionally set out to make that sort of character it just doesn't work. It has to be a happy accident.
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>>89375019
Demongo was fucking awesome. Cool powers, nice voice and design, good episode, etc.
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>>89367461
thats what good character design does to people
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>>89377908
>Simpsons
>Gumball
>good character design
Nobody who isn't congenitally retarded has ever fapped to those characters.
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>>89369687
I AM STILL SO FUCKING MAD ABOUT THIS

LOL LETS JUDT MAKE THE TOP STORMTROOPER THAT WE GAVE AN AESOME DESIGN AND HYPED UP BE A DIRTBAG THAT BETRAYS HER CAUSE AND LEADS TO UNTOLD DEATHS AND PREVENTS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FIRST ORDER's ENEMIES BECAUSE LOL TRASH CHUTE

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK IM HAVIN AN ANEURYSM

MY CHROME WAIFU REEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>89367461
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>>89367461
Don't know if people obsess over them, but one of the biggest problems with modern spongebob is constantly writing one-off characters as stupid plot devices.

Old spongebob had one-off characters, sure, but most were memorable and added immensely to the episodes they were in. Modern spongebob? Not so much.
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>>89367461
>spongebob is still running
how is it?
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>>89367892
He was in like 5 episodes though
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>>89378121
Why do new spongebob designs look so uncomfortable? I mean their existences look legitimately uncomfortable to live.
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>>89367461
Pretty sure squidward wasn't meant to be a one-off character.
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>>89377799
Portal actually contains a great example. They for some reason expected the wreckage hoop that falls after GLaDOS dies to become huge, but actually it was the companion cube and "cake was a lie" that became the memes.
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>>89372772
Literally why wasn't she? That would have fixed both her and the awkward traitor yelling and random trooper going hypercompotent.
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>>89378099
Objectively true, but also true of blue water gal, the laser cannons, peedy, the non-CG pearls, basically half the show.

They make characters, see what sticks online, them make more episodes about the populare ones.
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>>89375019
Samurai Jak didn't really do recurring characters (apart from the obvious two and a couple notable exceptions)

It was very much a 'one and done' formula
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What attracts people to these sorts of characters is their sparse appearance. This gives them mystery, which is appealing, and lets people speculate and come up with theories about them.

If the character starts having more appearances, or even joins the main cast, they lose that mystery appeal because the audience gets to know them. Getting to know them also means a lot of speculations and theories become false, which people hate. What they build up in their head is always more exciting then what they actually get.

It's sort of like how in Alien not seeing much of the alien is what made it scary, because it let people's imagination take over.

Lapis and to a lesser extent Peridot in SU are a prime example of this. People hate them now because they're actual characters instead of existing mostly in the fan's imagination.
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>>89367892
Am I crazy or is he named after Fred Freiburger from Star Trek?
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>>89378469
I heard they waited until the last minute to actually cast Phasma, and apparently couldn't decide if they wanted a man or a woman in the role.
So maybe by the time Phasma was cast, it was too late to reshoot the scenes she was originally planned to be in
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I dunno, sometimes I enjoy those characters.
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>>89368402
I love The Simpsons, but I have never heard of Allison Taylor being popular. Really, she's just part of the background children who are necessary to fill out school scenes.
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>>89374782
A background animator giving a character wonky eyes because they assumed the character wasn't going to appear in the final shot is still an accident.

Also
>using an anonymous post on 4chan as a source
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>>89378441
What?
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>>89378553
heh
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>>89369687
>>89377978
>>89377799

Funny thing is that the TR8T clone that ended up as a memetic badass.

Wouldnt mind him back as a rival to Finn.
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>>89383174
>Wouldnt mind him back as a rival to Finn.
Supposedly he's one of Finn's training comrades, and he's an asshole. He was in one of the stories

Name was Nines iirc
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>>89367547
Not really /co/ related-ish, but Boba Fett. The fandom practically deify him, even though he doesn't do shit in the movies. He's more of a prop than a character.

Oh, and that Stormtrooper that yells "Traitor!" at Finn in The Force Awakens.
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>>89372323
Talk about an asspull. I don't think he qualifies as any kind of fan-favorite. I've never even seen a screencap of this character before.
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>>89367547
sometimes this in intentional.
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And Longshot never made it into a fighting game, so there's that.
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>>89374805

A 1 is still bigger than a zero.
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>>89383279
The TRAITOR example is hilarious because they pushed Phasma and Kylo so hard before the movie came out and neither one got super popukar
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>>89367461
big buff cheeto puff comes to mind
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>>89369434
Yup.

Mandalore is such a stupid concept. An entire planet of cosplayers.
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>>89384034
Quote Wikipedia:
>Spiral began as one of 20 minor characters that Adams designed on a character sheet as the pursuers of the character Longshot. Although Adams gave little thought to Spiral, as he had developed ideas for the other characters he had drawn on the sheet, Nocenti decided to make her a major character, and gave her the name.
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>>89369434
People just like the armor, they don't care about the man under the suit. Which is why it was stupid to give him an origin in the Prequels.
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>>89372986
>>89384831

Same shit with Maul. Just an alien with a cool design.
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>>89384831
The Clone tropers are fucking badass dude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnwXu0ZpySY

I dig them being related to Boba.

Originaly he was meant to be a special kind of stromtrooper, but now the stormtrooper look is explained as a copy of his mandalorian armor because of Jango.
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>>89384899
I ain't got no qualms with the Clone Troopers. They're aces in my book. I just question if it not had been for the massive amount of fan-love for Boba/Mandalorians, would Lucas have felt the need to even connect them to Boba at all.
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>>89367892
Gonna need sauce
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>>89384753
She got half an arc, sorta.
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>>89385454
i haven't seen any SU after sardonyx first shows up, was her half arc any good?
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>>89384763
I know someone who teaches Mando classes. He got mad at me for saying the soul is the brain. Then he went on a rant about thermodynamics or some shit.
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>>89383946
>main character
>one off

The whole series is named after her FFS.
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>>89385487
Many fans would agree it ruined her character
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>>89385487
It's better for the other characters honestly. Peridot gets a better arc. She's basically just an antagonist but some people are hoping she'll return and get redeemed somehow.
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>>89385487
Peridot and Jasper went from being Vegeta and Nappa to Nappa and Vegeta.

She loses it and becomes sympathetically ineffective, then mutates and gets knocked out just as the plot picks up.
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>>89385527
>>89385533
>>89385567
everything i've heard of SU post-jailbreak has been negative

why do people here still watch it?
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>>89367547
Derpy
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>>89385598
Nah, Peridot's character development is fantastic and her shenanigans with Lapis are great. Just... the pacing has been glacial.
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>>89375243

So you're saying Maul is way more relevant and interesting in the expanded universe?

Just like Boba Fett?
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>>89385598
Eh, post-Jailbreak SU definitely had a dive in quality but recently I think it's been on the uptick.
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>>89375664

I think a lot of it actually stems from "no disintegrations"
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>>89367461
>>89367547
The Rowdy Ruff Boys (minus the porn).

>>89383237
Just because he's an asshole doesn't mean he couldn't be a rival. Oh wait, it does. In the SW Empire/First Order you're either Jesus (like Finn who was "redeemed" despite not being the least bit evil to begin with) or irredeemably evil (literally everyone else minus Vader in VI).
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>>89372986
He literally killed Liam Neeson. shit the fuck off
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>>89385881
Well, the Zoo arc went nowhere plot wise but at least the characters did things.
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>>89385979

And then was promptly killed by Ewan McGregor. Not exactly a major player.
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>>89385956
I mean he basically already fits the role

He's an antagonistic character who has prior history with Finn. Assuming he survived he was pretty much made to be a rival
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>>89385996
And the episodes were fun too.

Holy Blue Agate may wind up fitting OP's bill before long, I've been seeing fanart of her all over tumblr.
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>>89385832
See, I thought Jailbreak would take them to a gem outpost or something and that they'd take 5 episodes to get back. That would have been neat.
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>>89367461
I don't see how that's a bad thing. If anything, it just means you're a shit writer if your one off character attracted so much love over everyone else.
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>>89385598
It's not lost it quite just yet, hope there yet is.
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>>89386020
What I meant was he's probably too "evil" to be a rival rather than a straight up enemy.
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>>89386080
sense that makes, yoda agrees
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>>89367547
>>89383279
Not /co/ too but that girl in Stranger Things. The writers did not expect the support the character got.
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>>89385507
She was supposed to appear for only the first chapter m8
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>>89386135
The fat, ugly, loser girl was mainly popular on Tumblr.

I wonder why???
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>>89386146
What else would the series be about? She's the entire hook.
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>>89386135
I think that was due to the lack of real resolution more than anything considering how it was the catalyst for the other girl to get involved with the weird shit

"She's gone, where is she, other people find out she's dead, moving on"
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>>89372323
I thought the flower guy or the balloon fit that description, minus the "never spoken again" part
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>>89375776
but is only one guy who likes that character, right?
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>>89369875
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>>89386151
Yeah she was popular in Tumblr but it spread from there. I think the support came more from twitter, to be honest.

>>89386279
Hmm I don't think it's just the lack of resolution. I never really expected them to have a funeral scene for her or something, since she was a side character from the get-go. It was also quickly addressed that the cops and her parents believe she ran away, and we see in the end that Nancy still wasn't over her death. From the main characters' POV, she's the only one that should mourn her death as the rest didn't know her that well.

The lack of resolution helped, but fans latched on to her because she was relatable or it's the whole Boba Fett thing again.
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>>89367636

Bring her back "Venture Brothers"!

It's ridiculous to deny your fans such SECKSY.

(post-script: don't make that misspelling a meme. THICC is bad enough, even though I approve of thickness).
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>>89386622
Trying to not make something a meme makes it meme harder. Has 2016 taught us nothing?
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>>89367461
pacifica?
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>>89367461
Is there are a cartoon ever that this didn't happen for?
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>>89386285
not really, that balloon actually has some major roles recently, albeit some very predictable and overused ideas.
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>>89387867
Pacifica wasn't a one-off character, but apparently she was never supposed to be more than GF's version of Trixie Tang. Alex did eventually throw complaining fans a bone with NWMM.
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>>89388810
>Alex did eventually throw complaining fans a bone with NWMM.

which just made things worse because they expected her to become a main character or something
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>>89367547
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>>89388834
He used to post on /co/, in fact he may still lurk on here. Anyway, the /gfg/ crowd demanded moar Pacifica, so the hacklett gave them one token episode to shut them up.
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>>89388834
She was on the wheel, that's pretty main
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>>89389159
>gave them one token episode to shut them up.

sadly it didn't work
>>
I think Alex wasn't eager to use Pacifica that much because her VA cost money. GF did benefit in that regard from the fact that he did about 75% of the male voices on the show himself.
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>>89367736
Wowie, two curved lines on a cartoon character

I'm glad I'm not this basic
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>>89367736
This fanbase is so inmeasurably stupid
>>
>>89383279
The silly thing with Tr8or is that the movie is so dull in every way, and yet the one really memorable sequence was a random mook going harder than the main villains.
>>
>>89389624
I dunno, Kylo Ren pulling off his mask to reveal a douchey teenager was kinda great.

Fuck you, Jacen Solo.
>>
>>89382133
>Flashinthepan
>anonymous
Flash was an animator on the show then and was the source of behind the scenes information and other things during the 2010-2011 era of mlp.
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>>89378099
She's actually the most well-developed character, in all honesty. An issue the show has is the Gems flip flop their personalities a lot outside of the basic perameters, but Peridot's change from villain to protag has been very consistent for the most part.
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>>89378121
The cat one-off character was surreal.
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>>89375019
He was one of the most memorable of Jack's opponents. Although it would've been nice to see him return, I was fine with what we got.
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>>89367715
>>89368067
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>>89369742
What Punk Girl?


Are you talking about Mandark's Sister Olga (Lalavava)? Cause if so, I agree 100%
>>
>>89367461
What is Jin From avatar
>>
>>89386214
Ataru and Shinobu going on boring romantic adventures with "obstacles" similar to Lum trying to get in the way of their "Love".

Thank God that they made Lum Ataru's Love Interest instead. She was Best Girl and Japan knew it.
(Ironically enough, Rumiko Takahashi couldn't STAND Lum)
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>>89384714
>Phasma
To support your argument, I'm not sure I even know who that is.

>>89386425
I'm not sure how much this counts. I guess it depends if you include the comics and the upcoming movie Evolution had the best x23, I hope the movie does it justice.
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>>89378121
at least the previous one-off characters are getting proper attention due to this
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>>89385624
>3 movies
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>>89369875
>shitting on best girl
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>>89367872

Why were those eyes more lewd than actual Wonder Woman's eyes?
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>>89392114
half-lidded

referred to as bedroom eyes
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>>89372772
>Supposedly she's going to have more screentime in the sequel.
I thought she died?
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>>89367461
>>89367547
Yes, derpy.hooves was annoying
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>>89367547
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh_ZK_Rb25s
OINGO
BOINGO
BROTHERS
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>>89386542
>>89369875
>>89369943
>>89371094
>>89371139
>>89371148
>>89371179

SUMMON MY MASTERS
*autistic screeching emenates in the background.*
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>>89369579
>had a couple of ladies draped over him that one time?

That wasn't even in the original movie. It was actually added in the special edition to give him SOMETHING to do in Jabba's palace because of how popular Boba Fett had gotten.

He's mostly popular because his action figure sold really well. Not only did it match Vader in terms of coolness (Luke/Han/Leia action figures are just dull humans), he came with a badass weapon in the form of a rocket launcher, had a jet pack, and he has a unique ship that's badass enough to keep up with the Millennium Falcon.
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>>89386135

Barbara? I admit to being a Barbara fan and only later became aware that the sentiment was a popular one. Easy to see where it comes from, though.

For me, it was more or less a matter of fairness. She was the only kid showing even the least bit of responsibility and her reward was being eaten by a monster while the asshole(s) who just wanted to get into Nancy's pants and then treated her like shit get off scott free.

And while everyone is constantly going on about this other kid that's gone missing, nobody seems to give a shit about Barb or any of the other people that are missing.

And then they don't give us any kind of resolution. They just brush her off despite her being the best friend of one of the main characters who had more screen time (prior to her death) than the kid we spend the whole season trying to get back.

It's 80's monster movie 101 that you don't kill off the responsible, bookish, virginal, young woman while the annoying kid, asshole bully popular guy, and others all get redeeming moments/happy(ish) endings.
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>>89371592
>Lord Dominator.

Had they introduced her sooner i'd imagine the show wouldn't have been cancelled so soon
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>>89378121
>old spongebob episode Patrick makes a one-off comment on whether he has a sister or not

>there's an episode years later where it turns out he does

what a weird call-back that probably wasn't even a call-back
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>>89391624
I like Shinobu
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>>89393070
>00000+02017
>nobody's even triggered anymore.
>>
blump
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>>89388810
>>89389159
We helped that hack a ton.

>back in 2011
>Alex came here and told us about this cartoon he was developing
>some lame shit about a kid and his sister having adventures over their summer vacation
>so we gave him all the the ideas for the mystery/supernatural/overarching plot stuff
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>>89396652
I don't believe you.
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>>89393178
It's "Awaken, my masters!" dingus
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>>89396652
Can someone give me a compilation of screenshots about that?
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>>89399159
There wasn't any archive site in 2011, it only goes back to 2012, but posters who were there in '11 have said that he did used to actively post on /co/.
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>>89399197
ok gotcha
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>>89367461
flame princess.jpg
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>>89378342
ascended fandom.
it's like the penguins of Madagascar getting their own show/movie.
If enough ESL types respond well to it you can expect to see more.
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>>89367547
Adventure time
everyone wanted Fionna instead
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How has no one mentioned Harley Quinn.
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>>89375803
The bounty hunter wars and short story collection were cool. Also, Dengar is the best bounty hunter.
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>>89401226
>it's like the penguins of Madagascar getting their own show/movie.
or Minions in general

>>89401279
Cause she was a slower crawl.
Harley didn't just explode into cult popularity with her first appearance
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>>89367636
That and they definitely made it seem like there was going to be more to her story.
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>>89401299
was going to mention minions too but felt it was too easy and would have made my post redundant.
typically the characters that fit this thread most are
(a) makers of annoying silly noises and "cute" like every 80's talking animal mascot *snarf*
(b) vague or more sex appeal(a skirt, boobs)
(c) ambiguous sexuality
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>>89401279
>joker's sidekick
>One-off character
pick one.
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