Lincoln Loud (seasons 4 and 5)

Lincoln Loud is the main protagonist of the Nickelodeon series The Loud House and its two film adaptations, and a supporting character in its spin-off mh:besttvshows:The Casagrandes. He is a 12-year-old student at Royal Woods Middle School.

While he was a mainly likable character in the first three seasons, unfortunately he got flanderized and derailed starting with the fourth season.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) He has received major flanderization. He went from a kindhearted child who cares for his friends and family, to a bigger and more selfish jerk than he already was. While he has been jerky sometimes in the earlier seasons, it wasn't his defining trait. But in this season, this takes it up to eleven.
 * 2) He also became a huge punching bag in these seasons as well, just like Season 1. Seasons 2-3 had to tone this down after heavy backlash from fans, but it has become more prominent as of Season 4.
 * 3) His clumsiness has also been taken a higher level.
 * 4) *In “House Flip”, he and the Loud siblings acted like insecure idiots throughout the whole episode. He also thought of hiding Flip in the attic to avoid letting his parents know.
 * 5) *In “A Grave Mistake”, Lincoln serves chicken nuggets for funeral food leftovers, which is considered to be one of the stupidest things to come from him.
 * 6) He was very unlikable in “Kings of the Con”, as he and Clyde planned on staging a crime for them to save, which is not very heroic for a superhero themed episode and commit an act of selfishness by catnapping the Kitty to get the role, which is considered animal cruelty.
 * 7) In the episode "Grub Snub", he makes such a big deal of Leni and her friends hanging out at Gus' Games and Grub and then he tries to get Leni to leave Gus' Games and Grub. In fact, during the final round of their challenge, all of them start fighting and destroying all the arcade games which causes everyone else to run away from Gus' Games and Grub and they even injure the owner of the arcade, and somehow they are allowed back in the arcade when they are supposed to be banned from the arcade since they've done much worse in the arcade and they even injured the poor owner. You think he would have learned his lesson from Season 1's "Space Invader", right?
 * 8) He has jumped more quicker to conclusions:
 * 9) *In “Stall Monitor”, while he can be likable, he worries that his teacher has bad things to say about him, so he tries to delay his parent-teacher conference, but it turns out she had no bad things about Lincoln, meaning that he overreacted over nothing and his actions got him a week of detention and also a week of being grounded from his parents, when this could've been avoided if he hadn't jump the gun.
 * 10) *And in “Family Bonding” where he thinks his new neighbors are evil spies just because he saw them moving stuff around their house late at night, and somehow ended up being right about them in the end, which was really nonsensical and absurd.
 * 11) *He was at his absolute worst in mh:awfulmovies: A Loud House Christmas, as he, along with Clyde sabotaging his sisters, Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, and Lily’s plans to have the perfect Christmas ever and the rest of the Louds’ plans of going to Miami and the Royal Woods’ Christmas Tree Light Ceremony. He was idiotic and a total rotten moron! Also, his live-action actor, Wolfgang Schaeffer, did so terrible. It turns out the famous Jack Dylan Grazer should have been a better idea to voice him, as he voiced the friendly characters Alberto and Barney in Luca and Ron's Gone Wrong respectively.
 * 12) His plans aren't as impressive or fun as they were in the earlier seasons. They're more jerkish, stupid, and gullible.
 * 13) Despite being the main character, in the fourth season, he barely receives any focus at all.
 * 14) While it is nice to see him getting more focus on the show's fifth season, however, he has been getting so many episodes to the point where his mother, and sisters like Leni, Luan, Lucy (formerly), Lola (formerly), and Lily, do not have their own episode, Lynn Sr. not getting an episode to himself, have had only one episode to themselves, sisters not having one more episode, sisters not having more than two episodes, an episode where the Chang family visits Royal Woods, etc. The same is with Clyde, Liam, Rusty, Zach, and Stella, along with minor characters Girl Jordan and Paige. This caused some fans to get sick of Lincoln getting too many episodes. Many of the episodes about Lincoln are about him and his friends in middle school.
 * 15) *In addition, depending on your view, Lincoln and his friends have been getting way too many episodes in Season 5 as opposed to them getting some in the first four seasons. Most of the time, the episodes are about Lincoln, his friends Clyde, Liam, Rusty, Zach, and Stella, and his enemies Chandler and Bratty Kid are in middle school. This caused many fans and users from The Loud House Wiki (like Snkcole8630, the now inactive Mattia Movies, and Gamer372Revind) to get sick, tired, and annoyed of them getting too many episodes, wanting their favorite characters to get their own episodes and a second/third one. Most of the episodes are about him and his friends in middle school.
 * 16) Sometimes he is shoehorned in an episode and/or is only used as filler, like Deep Cuts, Don't You Fore-Get About Me, Ghosted!, Blinded by Science, Diamonds Are for Never, Dad Reputation, etc.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Despite his jerkiness, he still cares for his family and friends. In addition, he sometimes has his original personality.
 * 2) He was better in Seasons 1-3, as he wasn't as much as a jerk in those seasons. Plus, the show wouldn't be the same without him.
 * 3) *In addition, he slightly improved a bit in Season 5, as he isn't that jerky there.
 * 4) *And his design was way better in Seasons 1-3.
 * 5) He has his original personality at times, and is likable in a lot of episodes:
 * 6) *In Friended! with the Casagrandes, Ronnie Anne does indeed video chat Lincoln, on her phone. Lincoln then tells her how her big city life been. Ronnie Anne tells him it's great, and a funny thing that she thought she saw him the other day, but it was an old man with white hair, where Lincoln tells him he gets that a lot, pulling back his hair. He gets trampled by his sisters, which are Lori, Luna, Lucy and Leni, telling her it is breakfast time, and that he needs to go down before one of his sisters swipe his bagel. Ronnie Anne says "Smell ya later".
 * 7) He still has his fair share of good and funny moments.
 * 8) To be fair, his selfishness is admittingly justified since he is very young and has to deal with his annoying sisters.
 * 9) Still nicely voice acted.

Trivia

 * As of "Schooled!", he and his friends now attend middle school.
 * He has more focus in Season 5 and The Loud House Movie.

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