Line #23 Flanderization/ComicBooks


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13	!!The following have their own pages:
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15	* Flanderization/TheDCU
16	* Flanderization/MarvelUniverse
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19	!!!Other Comics
20	* ''Comicbook/{{Asterix}}'':
21	** DreadfulMusician Cacofonix starts out as at least an average bard - Asterix blows off listening to his music once due to being busy (which annoyed him) and the people sitting near to his performance at the final banquet are cringing with their hands over their ears, but the villagers also perform a plot-important traditional dance to his music with every indication that they are enjoying it. As the comic progresses, other characters (especially Fulliautomatix the blacksmith) start beating him up to prevent him from singing, which develops into a running gag, and he's shown to live in a hut at the top of a tree, where no-one can hear him. By the time Uderzo took over writing, he was so bad that he causes rain whenever he plays, which develops to the point where he ends up being so bad that merely playing a few notes creates an apocalyptic rainstorm that lasts for days.
22	** Obelix also developed, mostly because of the artwork - he starts out as an [[TheBigGuy angular, burly warrior with hairy arms and big, pointed horns on his helmet]] with a surlier and more straightforward attitude, but gets a rounder, softer, more childlike look with beatific expressions and little nubby horns to suit his [[TheFool increasingly innocent]], slightly CloudCuckooLander, childlike personality within the first few books.
23	* In a strange case of [[ArtEvolution graphical]] {{Flanderization}}, Kingdok from ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'' gets more monstrous each issue.
24	* ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}'': For the first half of the ''Wish You Were Here'' storyline (an arc taking up four paperback volumes) Don is a PragmaticHero whose fairly competent but a bit slimy and visibly pleased with being in charge. By the end of volume three his obsession with power is about his only character trait and he's willing to go to war with a much larger faction and take a baby hostage just to avoid losing any authority. Likewise, Elisa starts out as a simple ActionGirl who doesn't shy away from combat due to it providing a distraction from the CrapsackWorld. Then, in volume two, Elisa is portrayed as more eager to take the fight to the [[TechnicallyLivingZombie Crossed]] but arguably more focused on matters of security and the good of the group. By the third volume she's a flat-out BloodKnight, seemingly identical in personality to Des (whose established as living for almost nothing but violence) from the start) and displays apparent horror at the idea of a life with no more fighting.
25	* The ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan'' Eleventh Doctor comics depict the Master's TARDIS as '''always''' being a white classical column, to the point that the Doctor recognises it in a companion's visions and as a symbol on a flag. In fact, the Master's TARDIS only assumed that form on TV in the later episodes of "Logopolis" and the first episode of the next story "Castrovalva". However, the white column form had already been taken as the definitive one, for some reason, in {{Fanon}}, especially among Sexy/Lolita shippers. ([[RoboRomance Yes]], [[CrackPairing it]] [[DatingCatwoman exists]].)
26	* ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse:
27	** WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck and Scrooge's portrayal in early Italian-produced comics exaggerated their character traits from the American comic of the time to comical extremes. Donald became a narcoleptic with a complete aversion to any kind of physical work and so dumb he genuinely believed two plus two equaled five point five, who treated his nephews more like slaves than family. Scrooge on the other hand was stunningly violent and cruel towards absolutely everyone, with zero aversions towards outright criminal acts (one story mentioning he made a lot of his fortune from running an opium smuggling cartel), usually getting away with anything and everything purely because he was rich. The characters would eventually morph back into something more closely resembling their America counterparts.
28	** Magica [=DeSpell=]'s obsession with Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s NumberOneDime. Though her introduction does have her focused on attempting to steal it, other Creator/CarlBarks stories usually had Magica simply wanting to become rich, and would often have her working on schemes completely unrelated to the dime. Nowadays, she's completely psychotic about that coin, and you rarely, if ever, see a Magica story without it as her prime goal anymore.
29	** The dime itself also went through a sort of Flanderization. In the original story with Magica the dime had no initial magic powers. Magica just needed it as a spell component. Later writers seem to have missed this point and decided that the dime was somehow the source of Scrooge's wealth. In some stories, Scrooge can lose the dime over simple theft and suddenly his entire empire is crumbling. Creator/DonRosa [[TakeThat mocks this]] in the GrandFinale of ''Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'', where the Flanderization [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall extends to rumors in-universe]]. Scrooge finds the idea that he owes his entire fortune to a lucky charm (which he had for ''twenty years'' before he even started to make his fortune!) incredibly insulting. That said, Rosa's take on the characters has also that Magica's spell would indeed work should she get her hands on the coin, and that losing the dime would indeed cause Scrooge to lose such spirit that he'd be no match for his enemies.
30	** The Beagle Boys started out as worthy opponents of Scrooge who in Carl Barks-stories and the early Italian stories seemed competent enough as thieves to outright terrify Scrooge and seen as real threats to his wealth. Their plans to get the money were also quite creative. Nonetheless they are always defeated by Scrooge and fail in their plans. In more recent comics they lost that threatening more and more thanks to constantly failing and are taken less serious by Scrooge. They also star in their own comics as [[VillainProtagonist Villain Protagonists]] where they often enough are portrayed as incompetent losers who can't even afford the simplest kind of crimes.
31	** [[https://inducks.org/character.php?c=Rock%20Sassi&view=1&redirected=1 Rock Sassi]] AKA Brick Boulder was invented by Italian authors and was supposed to be an-one shot character: a tough, hardened, no-nonsense Texan cop intended to become Chief O'Hara's assistant in place of the bumbling Detective Casey. The criminals like Pete and the Phantom Blot were afraid of him and tried to reinstate Casey. Then, Brick Boulder became a semi-regular character and became just as idiotic and incompetent as Casey, if not more.
32	* When the ''ComicStrip/LittleLulu'' comics first introduced [[MeaningfulName Wilbur Van Snobbe]], he was accurately depicted as a {{Jerkass}} SpoiledBrat who would go out of his way to try to best either Lulu or Tubby, with no success. However, when the anime version was created, the creators took away his snobbish characteristics and turned him into a well-mannered rich boy who served as TheSmartGuy to Lulu and the others. Then, when ''The Little Lulu Show'' was created, his snobbish personality was fortunately returned intact, just like in the original comics.
33	* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'': Jolly Jumper, while capable of some impressive feats, was actually just a normal horse during the early comics and drawn as [[http://forbiddenplanet.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/IMG_00024.jpg such]]. His intelligence got more and more played up once Creator/ReneGoscinny took over the writing (leaving Creator/{{Morris}} more free to do drawings), eventually leading to him being given a much more [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/af/06/59/af06594c05778071fd1268d9921177db--lucky-luke-memorie.jpg cartoony]] look, capable of [[TalkingAnimal Animal speech]] and feats no normal horse should be capable of.
34	* In his first appearances in the comics, Grouchy Smurf from ''Franchise/TheSmurfs'' was perfectly capable of carrying on a normal conversation, even with his grouchy attitude. Over time, though, his MadLibsCatchPhrase of "I hate (...)" became more and more prominent in his dialogue, and by the time the cartoon came around, almost all of Grouchy's dialogue was based solely around declaring his hatred for whatever the others were talking about at the time.
35	* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'':
36	** Sonic's attitude has been cranked up, to the point where he's making wisecracks during a battle with Enerjak, a being with seemingly limitless energy (though this may have been more for comic relief than anything, it was a tad excessive). [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools To be fair]], though, it seems to have slightly boosted his badassness--at the cost of emotion (again, though, to be fair, he never really showed much emotion anyway). The part about emotion is slowly being subverted as of #200; ever since Sonic's apparently driven Robotnik totally, droolingly insane, he seems to actually regret having broken down the guy so completely.
37	** An aversion may come from the early comics, which had a much zanier and cartoony format thus exaggerated a lot of the characters' traits compared to their ''[[WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM SatAm]]'' counterparts, e.g. Sonic existed as a KarmicTrickster with a TotallyRadical mannerisms akin to his ''[[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog AoStH]]'' counterpart, Sally's somewhat neurotic and no-nonsense attitude was exaggerated into a spoiled, mean-tempered prude and Robotnik was converted into even bigger a bumbling CardCarryingVillain than his 'Eggman' incarnations. This was reversed as the comic's writing tone became more serious and akin to the show, though some genuine cases of flanderization do pop up on occasion.
38	** [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Silver the Hedgehog]] has his stupidity cranked up from the original game as he starts accusing ''everybody'' in Freedom Fighters one by one as a traitor at the drop of a hat. It gets so ridiculous not only Sonic stops taking him seriously, but starts hating his guts because the guy's accusing people who [[DudeNotFunny happens to recently get injured, leave the team, or be mind controlled.]]
39	** Shadow deserves a mention. While still somewhat the calm and pragmatic anti hero he was in the games, he's increased his pride and lack of hindsight. He feels he constantly has to prove himself as the ultimate and gets mocked for his no nonsense attitude due to the comic making light on his serious methods towards threats. He always gets into situations in harsh and reckless ways especially against powerful enemies like Scourge or ADAM biting off more than he can chew. He goes into a [[BerserkButton roaring rampage of revenge]] when he loses to those same threats and his crushed pride making him more a sore loser.
40	* ComicBook/{{Tintin}}: The Dupont's, ([[DubNameChange Thomson's]] in the English version) while still subject to quite a bit of slapstick, were also shown to be quite competent in their earlier appearances including successfully busting Tintin out of jail at one point, if [[InspectorJavert only so they could arrest him themselves]]. Their competence slowly started decreasing as the comics went along though, while their ComedicReliefCharacters status was played up more and more, going as far that you actually wonder how the hell they still have their jobs in later albums.
41	* Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/TopTen'' has [[ShockAndAwe Shock Headed Peter]] who comes off at first as simply a prejudiced working class cop who actually has some character depth to a 2-D {{Straw\|Character}} [[FantasticRacism Robo-Racist]] when a robot character gets introduced to Precinct 10.

Context Flanderization / ComicBooks