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I watched a show called \\\"Daria\\\", an animated comedy on MTV. In said show, the main character, Daria Morgendorffer, was an American high school student dealing with extremely zany caricatures, from her teachers (Janet Barch, a rabid man-hater, Timothy O\\\'Neill, a sappy hippie teacher, and Angela Li, the principal best summed up as a dictator); her classmates, like Kevin and Brittany (two massive dumbasses), and Upchuck (a desperate perv); and even her family (a workaholic mother, a neurotic father, and fashion and popularity obsessed younger sister)
I\\\'m pretty sure this is the show you mean, so I can talk about Daria\\\'s character, who was frequently rude, obnoxious, and supremely arrogant to everyone she met.
To sum up the specific examples, her best friend Jane became interested in track and field [See Jane Run], to which Daria insulted her at their pizza parlor hangout, then stared moping around the house, When Jane later got a boyfriend [Jane\\\'s Addition], Daria continually berated him to the point where he had to beg her to stop because of the way she was treating Jane.
The 5th season has Daria berate Tom for supporting her for an entire episode for encouraging her to submit a writing anthology [The Story of D]. She then calls him out for forgetting their anniversary when she also forgot it [Sappy Anniversary], forces the issue of sex upon him only to back out at the last minute without a word [My Night at Daria\\\'s], and finally, the Grand Finale [Is It College Yet?], in which she projects her failure to get into her college of choice onto him, blaming his legacy for his success while utterly ignoring the fact that she had a terrible interview.
As for her parents? There was the time she was grounded for breaking the rules, then played the harmonica to annoy them into stopping the punishment [The Road Worrier], or all the problems she caused as a child, not to mention running away from home [Boxing Daria]. She also does this to Jodie Landon as well [Partner\\\'s Complaint], as well as attacking her sister at the end of [The New Kid]
Her self-centered attitude is best described in the Jane and Tom examples, but the NegativeContinuity of the show\\\'s first two seasons didn\\\'t do her any favors.
She may be called out for her behavior, but the multitude of examples shows she not only doesn\\\'t learn from it very well, but it\\\'s a consistent aspect of her character. That\\\'s pretty much a textbook example of DesignatedHero. Sure, there\\\'s other episodes when she calls out people like Val, but it\\\'s pretty much token goodness in comparison to the horrible things she does to others.
I\\\'m sure you have a difference of opinion, and I can respect that yours can differ. But we\\\'re only talking about whether this fits the trope of DesignatedHero, and given the definition, she fits very easily.
I\\\'m pretty sure this is the show you mean, so I can talk about Daria\\\'s character, who was frequently rude, obnoxious, and supremely arrogant to everyone she met.
To sum up the specific examples, her best friend Jane became interested in track and field [See Jane Run], to which Daria insulted her at their pizza parlor hangout, then stared moping around the house, When Jane later got a boyfriend [Jane\\\'s Addition], Daria continually berated him to the point where he had to beg her to stop because of the way she was treating Jane.
The 5th season has Daria berate Tom for supporting her for an entire episode for encouraging her to submit a writing anthology [The Story of D]. She then calls him out for forgetting their anniversary when she also forgot it [Sappy Anniversary], forces the issue of sex upon him only to back out at the last minute without a word [My Night at Daria\\\'s], and finally, the Grand Finale [Is It College Yet?], in which she projects her failure to get into her college of choice onto him, blaming his legacy for his success while utterly ignoring the fact that she had a terrible interview.
As for her parents? There was the time she was grounded for breaking the rules, then played the harmonica to annoy them into stopping the punishment [The Road Worrier], or all the problems she caused as a child, not to mention running away from home [Boxing Daria]. She also does this to Jodie Landon as well [Partner\\\'s Complaint], as well as attacking her sister at the end of [The New Kid]
Her self-centered attitude is best described in the Jane and Tom examples, but the NegativeContinuity of the show\\\'s first two seasons didn\\\'t do her any favors.
She may be called out for her behavior, but the multitude of examples shows she not only doesn\\\'t learn from it very well, but it\\\'s a consistent aspect of her character. That\\\'s pretty much a textbook example of DesignatedHero. Sure, there\\\'s other episodes when she calls out people like Val, but it\\\'s pretty much token goodness in comparison to the horrible things she does to others.
I\\\'m sure you have a difference of opinion, and I can respect that yours can differ. But we\\\'re only talking about whether this fits the trope of DesignatedHero, and given the definition, she fits very easily.
