• CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      I’ve never heard that word before so I had to look it up. Because obviously my first thought was Ned Flanders from The Simpsons.

      For anyone like me here you go…

      Flanderization is the process through which a complex fictional character’s essential traits are oversimplified to the point where they constitute their entire personality, or at least exaggerated while other traits remain, over the course of a serial work.