Removed the following entry; it tries to qualify Britta as "nice" by saying she hasn't been portrayed as a villain, when she was obviously one in Advanced Criminal Law, Science of Illusion, and even part of a Terrible Trio in Aerodynamics of Gender
- Nice Girl: Despite having her obnoxious tendencies, she and Troy are the remaining people in the study group who have never been cast into a villainous role for an episode. Jeff went batshit in season 3, Annie was villainized by Jeff for ratting out Chang, Shirley acted as Abed's personal Judas, Abed's Evil Abed persona wanted to cut off Jeff's arm, and Pierce.., where to begin with Pierce..
I took the liberty of moving all the pictures to the right rather than the right-left staggered format they were previously; I appreciate the rationale behind the original layout but this way makes the dot-point formatting look a bit tidier and better this way, rather than being squashed behind the image. It also makes it easier to tell where there's a new point or a subpoint.
CrypticMirror
Have re-edited the Ambiguous Disorder entry to remove the speculation about autism. Ambiguous Disorder is not an Audience Reaction trope it's in-universe only, and it is not for speculation on specific symptoms or specific disorders. Please don't add these back.
If you want to talk about how a creator says they intended a character to be interpreted as having a certain condition, then put it under Word of God on the trivia tab, but don't link it to the Ambiguous Disorder page please (because then it is no longer ambiguous).
Edited by CrypticMirror Hide / Show Replies
He's been derisively called an Asperger's case in-universe and characters have danced around trying to not say "autism" to him. It is ambiguous, yes, but autism is still acknowledged as a possibility in-universe. The Ambiguous Disorder page itself lists "quirks"/"symptoms" for each example, or has the page just not been fully repaired yet? It's not like we're reading too hard into the face-blind thing. Abed explicitly states in either 303 or 304 that he can only identify people based on their hair.
Edited by urutapu
One of the reasons Ambiguous Disorder was created was specifically to catalogue characters being weird and off without speculating on real disorders in general, and autism in particular, after the previous trope became almost nothing but people speculating that their favourite character had autism. You can catalogue him as having Ambiguous Disorder without speculating on what it is. We don't need to know what other characters think he has, all we need to know is that people think he has something wrong in the head, but they don't know exactly what.
I think Urutapu has done a fine job with the current edit. Since the sticking points were the mentioning of Aspergers/Austism and the reaction of Creator/Fan have been removed.
My original edit was more to correct a hasty deletion, than to keep all the wording that was present.
Mark
Where do we want to place Chang? S1 he is Faculty, S2 he is a Student, and S3 he is Other.
Is the Dean really an antagonist?
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