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Possible Single Issue Wonk/Partial Plagiarism Western Animation

The Precision Driver repeatedly posts on the Complete Monster proposal thread characters from The Simpsons, a show completely unconductive to having CMs because it’s too comedic.

• They did this three times in the past few months.
  • The first time they did this they proposed two unrelated characters from unrelated episodes of the show: Kostas Becker from the non-cannon episode "A Serious Flanders" (a parody of Fargo) who isn’t played seriously enough with comedic moments like telling a story that gets interrupted and his death being an Overly Long Gag were he the ice rolls over a bunch of times before he drowns, and Russ Cargill from The Simpsons Movie who is Played for Laughs with he says comedic stuff like “people should listen to him because he’s a big man on TV” and after he’s defeated he is comforted by Cletus who says “don’t worry, I once lost a game of tic tac toe to a chicken” and is potentially a Well-Intentioned Extremist. (This on its own wouldn’t be enough for a query but the next one is more of concern)
  • the second time they presented "more arguments" for just Becker (they admitted that Cargill has redeeming qualities) but the arguments were just repeating the same points in the earlier post along with proposing an image for the image links pagethat was just Becker holding a pen and a book in ominous light (they edited out the image since then) and later a different image that’s also just Becker in ominous lighting.
  • The third time was earlier today when, again, they just repeated the same arguments with repeated statements that Becker has no redeeming qualities (including that as an argument that he’s heinous). They also compared him to Randall Boggs who does have some funny moments but not in the same way as Becker.

• Now that isn’t the only reason I’m bringing this up, I also think parts of their EP was largely lifted from Kosta Becker’s entry on NightmareFuel.The Simpsons (which wasn’t added by them)
  • "A Serious Flanders" has Kostas Becker, aka the debt collector, who basically walks right out of a serious drama and acts as a Knight of Cerebus throughout the entire two-parter. After violently murdering the Rich Texan, chopping him to pieces and ripping his face off, he single-handedly kills Fat Tony's crew in a bloody shoot-out, before killing Fat Tony by putting his head in a donut maker. He also forces Ned into hiding for three years, only to shoot him once Marge unintentionally reveals his hiding spot. He has almost no funny scenes or jokes, and is probably the most serious villain to step foot in Springfield.
• From their first post
  • Kostas Becker from The Simpsons two-part one-off episode "A Serious Flanders" is a notorious debt collector and gangster who, along with his associates Seamus and Collette, are introduced by having the Rich Texan captured and killed before having him chopped up and has his face ripped off at the start of the episode. Later on, Becker and his associates capture Homer so he can act as leverage against his neighbour Ned Flanders and after that, Becker takes the lives of Fat Tony and his crew during a shootout at the Lard Lad donut shop, with Disco Stu and Charles Montgomery Burns getting caught in the crossfire during the shootout. To showcase how monstrous he really is, he forces Ned and his sons Rod and Todd to go into hiding in Wyoming for three years and tries to have him killed when Marge unintentionally reveals his hiding spot. Throughout the two-parter, Becker has almost no funny scenes or jokes compared to previous villains such as Mr. Burns, Robert Terwilliger Jr./Sideshow Bob, Fat Tony or even Russ Cargill, helping to make him the most serious and vile villain to set foot in the city of Springfield, thanks in part to Brian Cox's spine-chilling voice-over performance throughout the two-part episode.
• From their second post
  • Firstly, while Russ Cargill does have a few gueninely funny moments throughout The Simpsons Movie despite being a vile character, the same cannot be said about the monstrous Kostas Becker from "A Serious Flanders", who basically walks right out of a serious drama and acts as a Knight of Cerebus throughout the entire two-parter. His vile deeds include brutally murdering the Rich Texan at the beginning of the episode, having Homer captured so he can act as leverage against his neighbour Ned Flanders, murdering Fat Tony, Legs, Louie and Johnny Tightlips during a shootout at Lard Lad Donuts and forcing Ned and his sons to go into hiding in Wyoming for three years and tries to kill him when Marge unintentionally reveals his hiding spot.

Maybe I’m just overthinking things, but since their only forum activity appears to consist of trying to get characters from the simpsons on the Complete Monster page with stuff that’s not relevant to the discussion and what appears to be partial copying from the Nightmare Fuel page. To clarify I’m not officially reporting them, I just want to clarify somethings. Thoughts?