User talk:1234auz/sandbox

Chris Thorndyke Feedback

 * 1) While not completely a Creator’s Pet, Chris was needlessly shilled and undeservingly took credit for the actions of other characters who saved the day (they would only be credited if Chris helped in a way).
 * 2) *Not really. It would be an entirely different story if the characters only praised Chris for the hero stuff, and they were still given praise even if he wasn't around. In term of TV Tropes, the character in Sonic X that was usually character shilled was Sonic since he's labelled as "The Ace" on the TV Tropes website.
 * 3) Hes still a shilled character. There are MANY posts saying this on many websites. I even have a link from Reddit that has a good explanation as to why I hate his character.
 * 4) He’s poorly written. He was supposed to come off as a lonely rich kid, despite him having friends at school and people in his house to keep him company. His parents are supposed to be seen as neglectful, but it just shows that they are busy and they will drop everything to support him. This only backfired and had him come off as needy.
 * 5) *Even if a person is generally around people, that doesn't automatically mean they aren't lonely. Chris' loneliness comes from having to spend most of his time alone in his big and empty mansion without friends or siblings, and also finding his life boring as a result. Tanaka and Ella were there, but they usually just did their jobs as a maid and butler and most of the responsibly of keeping Chris company was left with Chuck. But still, Chris still found his life boring and lonely.
 * 6) True, but that still makes Chris loathesome because most of the viewers aren’t rich like he is. It would be impossible to relate to Chris if you haven’t even been in his shoes. Poorly written characters are characters that you can’t relate with and are difficult to root for. If it were up to me, I would have made Chris a middle class kid with no friends at school so that fans would have sympathized with him a lot more. He would have been one of my favorites if this was the case.
 * 7) He comes off as a spotlight hogger who took up too much screen time from the other characters, including Sonic himself.
 * 8) *Very true, but this stopped at season 3 where he was given less screen time.
 * 9) True, but unfortunately the damage was already done. The fans hated Chris so much they didn’t want him to return again and him returning just pissed them off, even when the writers tried to undo the damage.
 * 10) Other characters had their bad traits exaggerated to make Chris look good. For example, Shadow was made to be much crueler than usual by physically attacking Chris. Amy was made out to be a huge brat (Chris taking her role from her and taking credit from her when she was helpful just rubbed a lot of salt in the wound).
 * 11) *This doesn't apply to Chris' personal character flaws, and character flanderization can be common in anime. Shadow attacking Chris was meant to add to the drama of that scene, and Chris replacing Amy is actually an improvement since he reminds Shadow of Maria by face and personality.
 * 12) Actually it does. With Shadow attacking Chris, it only backfired and it made fans actually root for Shadow to hurt Chris due to Chris becoming loathesome (which is going too far because while I hate him, Chris is still just a kid). No, Chris replacing Amy was bad (for Amy’s character at least). The writers robbed her of development just to give it all to Chris while exaggerating her bad qualities. This was what made Amy fans contribute to his hatedom because Amy was denied good development in favor of Chris getting it taken from her. Chris should have been his own person and to have never taken anyone else’s roles because all it did was sour his character and make fans wish he was never on the show.
 * 13) He’s extremely too dependent on Sonic to the point that he almost doomed the universe by keeping Sonic from returning to his world.
 * 14) *He got over this in the third season as he grew up to be more self-confident. And even though he stopped Sonic from going back, he was very remorseful for what he did and even had a break down because he believed he took away Sonic's freedom. And given how Sonic knew that he could return home anytime he wanted to using the Chaos Emeralds, he just went along with it until Chris was ready to let him go. While it was wrong of Chris to keep Sonic from going back, Chris was still in sympathetic view because he didn't wanna lose a friend who filled his boring and lonely life with his friendship and adventures.
 * 15) Again, this is bad writing because the fans had already grown tired of Chris hogging the spotlight and fans had already gotten tired of Chris doing anything that they wanted the goodbye scene to be done with because we were happy that the writers were getting rid of him. While the writers did a good thing by making him more mature in season 3, the damage had already been done. Also, Chris took credit for when Amy did all the work to save Sonic (yet another time when he steals shine from Amy). His character is just so badly written to the point that fans are rooting against him when really they shouldn’t. It’s a shame.