Something that tends to happen a lot in the future-set stories by Flowerprincess 11, After the Jungle is no exception.
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Olga Sherman (née Pataki)
In the original series, Olga Pataki was a smart, beautiful, and popular young woman with many viable talents and achievements. Everyone (including Helga) expected Olga to have a bright future ahead of her. However, she was also shown to be an extraordinarily insecure and neurotic person whose happiness was a mask she put on to deal with the pressure her parents (particularly her dad) put on her. It was also shown that she really could be rather childish and unable to handle stress when faced with real problems. Her personality flaws and immaturity prevented Olga from becoming successful as an adult like everyone expected, since she never bothered to address or work through her issues.
- When she was around 24 (when Helga would've been around 12 or 13), Olga decided to try pursuing a career as an actress. To be specific, she wanted to become a theater actress for Broadway. She even quit her job as a teacher altogether to better pursue her acting dreams and even moved to New York City at some point so she could audition for Broadway. Unfortunately, for all her passion and determination, Olga just doesn't have the talent or the skills to become an actress and ultimately fails to make it big as one.
- Olga also ends up having a bit of falling out with her parents over her decision to become an actress—Bob and Miriam (the former especially) ultimately didn't approve of her quitting her promising career as a teacher to try and become an actress.
- When Olga was around 29 (when Helga would've been a high school upperclassman), she met and fell in love with Patrick Sherman, an aspiring musician whom she ultimately marries (after only six months of dating). Olga has a bigger falling out with her parents over her relationship with Patrick.
- Just like how Olga failed to make it big as an actress, Patrick fails to make it big as a musician. And when he and Olga are forced to find other jobs in order to support themselves, Patrick has trouble holding down a job, which has left Olga (who goes back to working as a schoolteacher) as the sole breadwinner at times (which she clearly resents).
- Bob and Miriam have made it clear that they don't like Patrick and that they prefer Helga's husband, Arnold, over him. While Miriam's generally bit more willing to put up with Patrick and be polite/courteous to him, Bob and Patrick have never gotten along and often argue when they're together.
- Olga, as noted above, eventually goes back to working as a schoolteacher to help support herself and her family. She eventually gets a teaching position at P.S. 118 (where she briefly worked as a student teacher in "Student Teacher"). And by the time Andy and Megan are in 4th-grade and Kindergarten, respectively, at that same school, Olga has become one of the school's 5th-grade teachers.
- From what can be gathered in "A Perfect Disaster", Olga's usually pretty busy with her work as a schoolteacher and doesn't seem to have much of a life outside of her job (aside from still trying to purse her "pipe dream" of becoming an actress).
- Patrick and Olga eventually have a pair of fraternal twins named Logan Robert Sherman and Lisa Miriam Sherman. While Olga really does love and care about the twins, she basically tries doing to them what her own parents (particularly Bob) had done to her and Helga when they were growing up. This has ultimately led to Olga having a rather distant relationship with her kids, particularly Lisa.
- Patrick, for all his flaws, doesn't seem to have as distant of a relationship with their twins as Olga and is generally more accepting of them for who they are.
- While Olga is still closer to Bob and Miriam than Helga is (although Helga's relationship with them has improved tremendously over the years), her relationship with her parents has soured a bit as she's gotten older (see above points). Also, in a reverse from when the sisters were growing up, Bob and Miriam now seem to favor Helga over Olga (possibly at least partially because of how Helga's ultimately become the more successful one of their two daughters). As shown in "A Perfect Disaster", Olga seems to be at least somewhat aware of this and clearly resents it.
- Because of Olga's family's financial issues, they live in a cramped, rundown apartment (much like Helga and her parents when they first moved out of the beeper store) and apparently have to change apartments every couple of years—the apartments that Olga and her family live in make the house that Helga lives in with her family feel like a mansion by comparison.
Summer Mitchell
- Like Helga's sister, Summer failed to make it big as an actress and was forced to find a different job to support not only herself, but her family as well.
- While Summer eventually gets married and has children (two sons named Sky and Sonny and two daughters named June and Britney), she and the father of her kids get divorced about a year prior to the events of "A Trip to the Beach", with Summer getting primary custody of their kids.
- Summer and the kids move back to her hometown, and it seems that Summer's ex-husband (the kids' dad) hasn't bothering keeping in touch with them, which Summer clearly resents.
- As described in "A Trip to the Beach", Summer looks quite a bit different as an adult than she did as teenager; as a teenager, she was arguably beautiful enough to pass for a fashion model, but as an adult, Summer (while not ugly) just looks old. Summer's also not as slim as she was as a teenager, being described as having the kind of figure that requires "mom-jeans". Finally, while Summer had waist-length hair as a teenager, she keeps it in a pixie-cut as an adult.
Wolfgang Wentworth (Senior)
In the original cartoon, Wolfgang was a relentless bully who rarely (if ever) got any real comeuppance for his treatment of Arnold and the others in their youth. However, his actions towards others (particularly Arnold, Helga and the rest of their friends) eventually come back to bite him, and he's clearly not doing too well for himself as an adult.
- Wolfgang eventually got married to a woman named Mary-Jo and they had a son named Wolfgang Wentworth Jr (more commonly called "W.J." for short). Unfortunately, W.J.'s just as much of a bullying Jerk Jock as his dad was when he was a kid. Wolfgang and Mary-Jo also eventually got divorced, with Mary-Jo having primary custody of their son.
- Wolfgang was ultimately forced to take a job at a fast-food restaurant in order to have any kind of income—and while his exact job title hasn't been revealed, it seems like he works at the place as part of the custodial staff (i.e, he's a janitor).
- He apparently gambles a lot and owes a lot of money to a lot of people (particularly his ex-wife and a group of men who beat him up at the end of "Andy's Tournament").
- When it comes to his physical appearance, Wolfgang (far from being the muscular and athletic bully that he was back in his and Arnold's youth) now has a "dad bod", a scraggly beard-and-moustache, a noticeable bald spot, bags under his eyes, stained clothing and a lot of body hair (some of which can be seen sticking out of his clothing).
- Wolfgang's still as much of an obnoxious jerk as he was as a kid, acting like he's still a big shot (even though it's obvious to everyone that he's clearly not doing too well for himself). Probably the only real difference now is that Wolfgang doesn't go around beating people up, stealing their things, or stuffing them into trashcans like he did as a kid... mostly because he'd probably get arrested if he tried doing that as an adult.
- He used to hit on Helga a lot when they were teenagers (even though she would've been dating Arnold at the time) and again not long after he and Mary-Jo got divorced (even though Helga would've long since been married to Arnold at that point), which ultimately led to Helga punching Wolfgang in the face to get him to back off.
