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Characters you wanted killed or to have survived
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07-15-2023, 07:50 AM
Otomo
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I don't think anyone "wants" their heroes to die.
I think it's a natural thing for kids to want the media/toys they love to at least deal with death and have SOME characters die. Without it, there's zero stakes. It gets stale and boring really quick.
The Joe cartoon was so sanitized. The parachutes from the planes is such a cliche people even normies talk about it today.
Transformers the Movie changed the stakes. Characters DIED and it was brutal. It let little kids feel like they were experiencing something new and exciting.
I was SOOO into TF after the movie. It was a dark, gritty show for "grown up" kids, not that baby shit like GI Joe with parachutes.
Even the Japanese cartoon imports like Voltron and Robotech were more interesting cause characters could actually die on those shows. "Safe" shows like GI Joe weren't that different from Jem or Care Bears.
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