Lincoln Loud (seasons 4 and 5)

Good

Lincoln Loud is the titular main protagonist of the Nickelodeon series The Loud House, its upcoming live-action counterpart, and its two film adaptions, and a supporting character in its spin-off mh:besttvshows:The Casagrandes. He is an geeky and accident-prone boy who lives in a house with his ten sisters and two parents. With the help of his friends, he finds new ways to survive in such a large family every day.

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

Bad Qualities

 * 1) He has now 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) His plans aren't as impressive or fun as they were in the earlier seasons. They're now more jerkish, stupid, and gullible.
 * 3) Like SpongeBob SquarePants from the series of the same name in Seasons 6 and 7, he mostly has clumsy/accident-prone moments and is a Butt-Monkey in the series.
 * 4) His clumsiness has also been taken a higher level.
 * 5) *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.
 * 6) *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.
 * 7) In “Kings of the Con”,  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.
 * 8) 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 cause 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? Not helping by the fact that Gus getting hurt would later be brought back in "Runaway McBride", if the writers did not learn their lesson from the fans.
 * 9) He has jumped quicker to conclusions:
 * 10) *In "Stall Monitor", 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 jumped the gun.
 * 11) *And in "Family Bonding", 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.
 * 12) The episode "The Taunting Hour" proves he cannot take criticism, as he tells the rest of the family to just "ignore critics".
 * 13) * In the 2021 live-action movie, mh:awfulmovies:A Loud House Christmas, he, along with Clyde, sabotages his sisters and parents’ 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 also played by Wolfgang Schaffer, a terrible, annoying, and bland actor.
 * 14) Despite being the main character, in the fourth season, he rarely receives any focus at all.
 * 15) While it is nice to see him getting more focus on the show's fifth season onward, however, he has been getting so many episodes to the point where his parents, sisters, and other supporting characters have not been getting episodes focused on them unlike in previous seasons. Most of the episodes that directly focus on Lincoln in Seasons 5-present are about him and his friends or hanging out and doing something separately with Clyde. In fact, this is also the case with Clyde, Liam, Rusty, Zach, and to a lesser extent, Lisa, and Lynn.
 * 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.
 * 17) *However, this is obviously excusable since he's the main protagonist of the series.

Good Qualities

 * 1) 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. His voice actors also still do a good job at voicing him.
 * 2) Despite his jerkiness, he still cares for his family and friends. In addition, he sometimes has his original personality.
 * 3) *In addition, his personality improved a bit in Season 5, as he isn't that jerky there. Depending on your view, he has fully returned back to his original personality in Season 6.
 * 4) *To be fair, his selfishness is admittingly justified since he is very young and has to deal with his annoying sisters.
 * 5) He still has his fair share of good and funny moments and is still well-written in a sizable amount of episodes:
 * 6) *In the Season 4 premiere "Friended! with the Casagrandes", his video chat with Ronnie Anne Santiago was nice and exciting to watch.
 * 7) In the following seasons, his relationship with his sisters is now positive, especially with Lori, Leni, and Luna who now really love him, (for example in "Season's Cheatings", "Lori Days", etc).
 * 8) Starting in Season 5, Lincoln finally has special talents from his magic shows and the Action News.

Trivia

 * As of Season 5, he now attends Royal Woods Middle School and has special talents of his magic shows and the Action News.
 * He has more focus in Season 5 and The Loud House Movie.
 * He is similar to SpongeBob from SpongeBob SquarePants who are funny, clumsy, accident-prone, annoying, mischievous, geniuses, creating plans, nerdy, have buck teeth and freckles.
 * Some people have believed that Lincoln is unlucky, although he is not unlucky because he's just a butt-monkey and an accident-prone which the writers made a copy from SpongeBob SquarePants and Gumball Watterson. Lincoln and SpongeBob were both clumsy and accident-prone characters. He has been mistaken for an unlucky character because of the episode "No Such Luck" in which he is not bad luck in the series.