->''"If you make that kid the Chosen Hero, you can totally bypass any other character development!"''
-->-- '''Blog/WorstMuse'''

->''"In a town where everyone's so carefully reinventing themselves, what I like about Freddy is that he doesn't even ''pretend'' to change."''
-->-- '''Frank''', ''Series/HouseOfCardsUS''

->''"I think the character has not progressed since season four. In fact, he may even have regressed a little."''
-->-- '''Creator/RobertBeltran''' on his role in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''

-> '''Eggman:''' You know. We're not so different, you and I. We both have our own styles that we won't change.\\
'''Sonic:''' Yeah, but yours is evil and mine not!\\
'''Eggman:''' Again - agree to disagree.
-->-- '''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW''', issue 23.


->''"The character, under the hood, still isn't made for emotion. She's a ''Series/DoctorWho'' companion through and through. Decades after "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E2TheHandOfFear The Hand of Fear]]", she has no living family, no romantic attachments, no friends, a job that exists only to justify starting a plot (I believe the last time we saw Sarah Jane [[ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat actually write an article]] was in the opening credits to ''Series/K9AndCompany''). ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' has given her a family, but they're a family that exists to fight aliens, which is to say, to let her continue functioning as a '70s ''Doctor Who'' companion.''
-->-- '''Dr. El Sandifer''' [[http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/outside-the-government-the-temptation-of-sarah-jane-smith/ on]] ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'', [[{{Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS2E9E10TheTemptationOfSarahJaneSmith}} "The Temptation of Sarah-Jane Smith"]]

->''"Troi is in the process of shaving Riker's beard, which, sadly enough, is the culmination of all the character development Riker gets between the middle of the series and the end of the films. Essentially, in the early days of the show, the beard made him likable, and now, he's matured enough that he can be likeable without the beard. That's really pretty much it. That's his character arc."''
-->-- ''Website/TheAgonyBooth'' on ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection''

->''"Astonishing that in seven years Harry Kim goes nowhere. Its like the character is stuck in stasis, always an [[NewMeat eager young nobody]] who wants to grow up and advance his career but [[LimitedAdvancementOpportunities never quite making it]] up the next step of the ladder. Paris is promoted and demoted, hooks up with B’lanna and has a kid in the time that Harry Kim gets no development whatsoever. Take his first scene and his last scene in this series and he is exactly the same person doing exactly the same things."''
-->-- '''[[http://www.docohobigfinish.blogspot.com/2012/02/voyager-season-one.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS1E1Caretaker Caretaker]]"

->''"It feels like Skinner has found himself stuck looping through the same character arc over and over again, the [[CommanderContrarian conflicted ally to Mulder and Scully]]... There is a sense that Skinner is a character trapping running in circles. He only gets so far before the production team decide that they liked the original dynamic and decided to reset him back to factory settings."''
-->-- '''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2015/07/17/the-x-files-s-r-819-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/TheXFiles''

->''"At this point, I don’t care if we ever get to the point where Lex Luthor acts like Lex Luthor ; I just want Superman to act like Superman. I mean, broken record time, but in this episode, Ollie’s busting up bank robberies in disguise, Lois is out going door-to-door to drum up support for repealing the [[SuperRegistrationAct VRA]], and even Martha Kent — ''[[EspeciallyZoidberg MA FRIGGIN’ KENT!]]'' — is giving speeches! Clark is doing '''''NOTHING'''''."''
-->-- '''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-10-13-beacon/ on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("[[Recap/SmallvilleS10E13Beacon Beacon]]")

->''"Every ''Resident Evil'' game since ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis RE3]]'' has chosen its main protagonists by lining up the main characters of the first two games and [[DecisionDarts throwing a dart]]. Do these people never age or do anything else with their lives? Has Chris Redfield ever made it all the way to the chemist and back without getting embroiled in zombie horror?"''
-->-- '''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''' on ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2''

-> ''The reason why Goku remains the focus of ''Franchise/DragonBall'' is due to one simple fact: Goku is ''Dragon Ball''. Everything that happens in ''Dragon Ball'' is due to his character, and it can’t be any other way, so let me explain why. Goku’s character is ideal for a long-running show because unlike Vegeta and Piccolo, his arc doesn’t have an expiring date.(...) Because Goku doesn’t need to change or grow from experience, the intrigue is when he interacts with a character or situation comes from how the world or that character reacts to Goku, so technically, Goku and characters like him that implement the Flat Arc have as much intrigue as the world around them does."''
-->-- '''WebVideo/TotallyNotMark''' on [[Franchise/DragonBall Son Goku]], who he defines as a static character who inspires change in others.

->''No doubt [[ComicBook/TheBoys Hughie]]’s tendency to mope and turn inwards is a source of frustration to many readers, all used to comic heroes who [[CharacterDevelopment learn from experience and develop into fully-rounded characters ready to handle anything]]. [[RealityIsUnrealistic In my experience this is like no one who’s ever existed in real life]]; even the most capable people either maintain or eventually return to their essential flaws. I doubt any twenty-something lad unused to trauma and violence could simply absorb it straightaway, and if he did become hardened or inured it would be as a different, less sensitive person. In other words, Hughie's bizarre triumph is that he remains Hughie.''
-->-- '''Creator/GarthEnnis''' Commentary On ''The Boys #66''. [[https://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/05/03/garth-ennis-commentary-on-boys/ Link]].

->'''Daisy:''' I've made up with my past, and I am more accepting of my present.\\
'''Peach:''' I've realized I can be selfish, and I'm trying to listen more to others...\\
'''Rosalina:''' I've stayed exactly the same! No changes whatsoever!
-->-- ''Webcomic/The3LittlePrincesses''

->''[[TheIshmael Brutha]] couldn't be the main arc of the story because him changing significantly would make the story ''less'' satisfying, not more so. He starts as a [[GoodShepherd cinnamon roll]] and he ends as a cinnamon roll, albeit an older, wiser and deafer cinnamon roll. [...] Brutha gets smarter, plans better, ends up becoming the head of the entire church and the prophet of prophets, but really, he doesn't ''change'' in the most fundamental way."''
-->-- '''Creator/JillBearup''' on ''Literature/SmallGods'' [[https://youtu.be/MWZSrTxJiYM here]]

->''[…] he’d just lean on the side of his Acura hatchback in some parking lot, always wearing these cargo shorts and a gigantic white T-shirt, mumbling into his flip phone, always having some argument with a friend over some $20 weed deal. The only thing he’d ever talk about was how he was going to install undercarriage lights in his hatchback.\\
I checked in on him two hundred years later and he was still doing the exact same thing. In more or less the exact same place.\\
He never got those lights put in. Even in a [[PostScarcityEconomy post-scarcity world]]! A world where you can just go to an ATM and there’s five hundred bucks already waiting in the tray for you! You can go do this whenever you want! And he never did, he just stood around and talked about it!''
-->-- '''Ten''' on Bryce, ''WebOriginal/TwentyThousandTwenty'', Chapter 10

->''"Now, maybe this is just a story they're trying to tell in [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW IDW]]; a story of Sonic [[{{Deconstruction}} facing the consequences]] of [[ThouShaltNotKill his flawed philosophy]]. But here's the thing: that's not Sonic. Sonic doesn't '''[[{{Ubermensch}} have]]''' a philosophy. He acts on instinct and lets his actions speak for him, not his words. He's had some inspirational quotes in the past, but they were always short and concise. They felt genuine and down-to-earth instead of [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic condescending and lame]]. That kind of [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools simplicity]] has so much [[RoundedCharacter depth]] to it. He doesn't need to grow or mature in order to be interesting, he just '''is''' interesting."''
-->-- [[https://youtu.be/6qUFvrbXTA4?feature=shared "Nobody Understands Sonic"]] by '''[[https://www.youtube.com/@PixelrushTheFunnyPixelMan Pixelrush]]'''

->'''Harvey''': Why?! Why, why ''WHY?!'' It does not stand to reason! How can you remain so defiant in the face of the One True Magic?!\\
'''Osvald''': Is that all you can think of, Harvey? You’ve not changed at all since we met. But some things ''do'' change. '''I''' have [[CharacterDevelopment changed]].\\
'''Harvey''': '''SILENCE!!''' NOT ANOTHER WORD!! Book of Demons, grant me more power! I will use ''whatever'' it takes to defeat you! '''OOOOOOOOOSVAAAAAAAAAAAALD!!!'''
-->--''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII''
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