Doktor von Eurotrash: Does it count if a character is Chickified when adapted into a different format? For example Téa/Anzu in Yu Gi Oh: in the early manga and the Toei animé, she's a lot more of an Action Girl, while in the Konami animé, she is pretty much demoted to just the Love Interest and Yugi's cheerleader (granted, their male friends suffer similar Badass Decay).

OK, maybe it's just me, but Casca's entry seems to be overdoing it a little bit; her pwning of Adon was after her feelings for Guts became obvious to the reader, and even after she slept with Guts, she was still playing a damn good game, like with the Bakiraka or during the first part of Wyald's pursuit. It's only when the horror bits came along that she started to become ineffectual, which is quite justified IMO since pretty much everybody else lost their shit at that point (it took Zodd to finally kill Wyald, and the Skull Knight is the only reason Guts and Casca even survived the Festival). Heck, she even kept her cool and rallied the troops almost as soon as they were swallowed in Hell -granted, it didn't do much good, but they were already doomed at that point. Seems to me more like a case of semi-fridging than this trope, as she didn't turn into a damsel through no good (or inadequately explained) reason. Thoughts?

(Copied from archived discussion - nobody answered me there)

• Kim Possible, protagonist of the show with her own name has this happening to her in nothing less than the Grand Finale, while her Sidekick Boyfriend goes into God Mode Sue to save her. Double Standards have never had so many Unfortunate Implications...
  • This is a case of Your Mileage May Vary. Sure, the Sidekick Boyfriend goes God Mode Sue, but Kim herself outwitted an automated turret, escaped from an alien spaceship, saved her boyfriend and arch-foe several times, and clipped the wings of an alien warlord three times her size in mid-air, along with being class valedictorian and getting buried in prestigious college applications. She might not have delivered the Coup De Grace, but she also wasn't a Distressed Damsel.

If the reply is right, she not fits.

Would what has happened to Maka in Soul Eater chapter 75 count as chickification?

Here's my question: Why in the hell is Sarah Kerrigan from Star Craft considered chickified just for the end of Wings of Liberty? It's completely insane. By people going so crazy, I'm led to assume that it is not okay for Blizzard- in a complete and TOTAL shift from their usual storytelling practices with Arthas and the player's tragic realization that their original character died PAINFULLY as the vessel for Lord or Terror's return in Diablo-that FOR ONCE, they decide to give a happy ending? That hope and being the Big Damn Heroes really does achieve something? Seriously, what the hell?

Kerrigan may very well have known what she was doing, but the Zerg part of her was always known to be something worse and worse and worse and that there was something in her left to save. Are you all really against happiness like that? What the hell?

I'm sorry, but Sora Takenouchi is a classic example of this trope. I get it that the criticism of her character development can run into Real Women Never Wear Dresses, but there are legitimate complaints behind that about how she was suddenly a damsel-in-dress who constantly needed to be saved by the boys in Adventure 02 after spending Adventure as a strong, capable DigiDestined who often was the one getting the guys out of scraps.

Removed as a nattery non-example:

• DragonBall Chi Chi was shown to be a capable fighter even holding her own against Goku in a fight. However, by Dragonball Z, she was a full time over protective mother who discouraged her sons from fighting like her husband Goku and her fighting skills rarely came into play ever again.
  • She was 'Not' capable of holding her own against Goku in a fight, in fact, Goku easily defeated her. It is subverted in that becoming an overprotective mother was her objective in the first place. Videl, however, had no excuse.
    • Videl is more of a subversion since she and Gohan still fought crime together as their superhero counterparts Great Saiyaman and Great Saiyawoman. If anything, they both became equally chickfied during the end of Dragonball Z.
  • Also, Chi Chi's fighting prowess is shown intermitently during the series. One character (Kame Sennin? or Krilin, can't really remember) once said that "she was the strongest mum in the world", or something to that effect. More often than not, she was subjected to The Worf Effect.