darkSpyro

These "audience surrogate" characters just infuriate me. They're always whiny human kids who whine about things that kids don't want to watch. Kids want to watch action happen like robots fighting each other or cool magic, they don't wanna hear how some boy complains that his daddy never went to his baseball game 'cus he was working. They act more like filler than "relatable".

If anything, they fall to ask questions we, the audience, would ask. We can't relate 'cus their reactions never reflect our own. Instead of being grateful for what he has, Chris from Sonic X constantly whines about not getting to bone Sonic. I know that's probably not the reason but it might as well be. We LOVE Transformers, robots who transform into vehicles and fight other robots. If Autobots were real, we would be happy that their benevolent. Why in the flying **** does Kicker from TF: Energon (or Smellergon) have to be such a huge racist against the Autobots? Does he want to commit genocide. He's no more than Griffith from Berserk. No excuse will justify just how pure evil he is and how we can't relate to him 'cus his action is the opposite to ours'. Same thing applies to Shia LeBeouf and Mark Wahlberg. Don't even get me started on those kids from Digimon. I would love to slice them all up. What camp did they went to? Camp Shinji Ikari? Even Shinji is nowhere near as bad as them and that says a lot.

I humbly summit that these executives don't understand the human mind, drop the pretense and stop making "audience surrogates" and instead just have better characters ask questions the audience would ask.

Anyway, that mildly annoys me sometimes.

Well, it's like any archetype, if written write they will work. Problem is,as like any that messes with the genre saviness, it's very easy to be lazy and just throw in some dumb jokes that won't ever amount to anything.

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chris thorndyke was my first thought too.

Good use of chris thorndyke

I just hope we don't get an annoying human child in the new Skylanders cartoon...they could easily shoehorn one in by having the Portal Master get sucked into Skylands somehow.

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chris thorndyke was my first thought too.

Good use of chris thorndyke

Haha. Awesome.