Unclear definition and a mix of examples: Character Exaggeration

My impression is that Character Exageration has something to do with adaptations of a work in which when something goes from one medium to another, in the second medium, a character's personality is exaggerated. Maybe it doesn't mean this, but a lot of examples are to this effect.

There are also examples noting characters' personalities being exaggerated on filler episodes of anime series. I'm not sure this is a correct use of the trope, but it sounds like it could be (i.e. character x acts in a more ridiculous way in non-cannon episodes but is their normal self in the canon ones).

But then there's also examples like the Spongebob Squarepants ones (boy is that show a criticism magnet) that sound like straight up Flanderization.

So, I'm wonder which of these gets at the right meaning of the trope.

I agree about the definition being unclear. I find this part of the description to be particularly confusing.

trope's discussion page

While I am not totally sure what the trope should be about, I think it is safe to say that examples that are just Flanderization can be moved to that trope.

In my opinion, character exaggeration is probably too broad of a name to just be about character exaggeration as a result of moving from one medium to another anyway. I think the name may be causing some of the problems with the examples.

edited 13th May '11 10:04:30 AM by LouieW

Good point. That's something else confusing in the quote. It sort of suggests that an example would involve a character being exasperated in the move from development to finished product, but I wonder how many people would know of examples unless they were the creators of that work.

I don't see how this is different enough from Flanderization to warrant a different page.

Also, why is a misspelling of the title used as a redirect? I think we should expect for people to learn how to spell "exaggeration".

There's two g's in exaggeration?

According to my spellcheck yes there is. This is a British vs American English thing? (without my spellcheck I would of spelled it the other way.)

edited 14th May '11 7:01:08 AM by Raso

No, this is a properly spelled vs. misspelled thing. Both countries spell it with 2 gs.

Why in the hell do we have a misspelled redirect to the correct spelling then? (Unless this was launched misspelled and later renamed?)

Can we cutlist that redirect?

edited 14th May '11 7:34:35 AM by Raso

Character Exageration doesn't have any wicks, so I'd say go for it.

How is this not Flanderization?

Bump. This is still a big problem.

I vote for merging with Flanderization.

Because exaggeration has two G's.

Supported.

Adaptational Flanderization seems distinct enough - might have to kick it back to YKTTW to gather up enough examples.

Vote against merging with Flanderization. This trope appears to refer to shifts in medium. For example, an Abridged Series or a Fanfiction wouldn't fall under Flanderization, or the character as written by a different author. If anything, it should be a subtrope of Alternative Character Interpretation.

edited 24th Sep '11 1:43:38 PM by wattage