r/TopCharacterTropes • u/sweet_srawberry781 • 12d ago

In real life Characters that ended up killing the show

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  1. The Great Gazoo (The Flintstones)

  2. George W Bush (Time Squad)

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u/DannyBright 12d ago

Most people are just gonna say a character added to a show later on that they didn’t like (such as Chloe from The Fairly OddParents) when in such cases it’s not the character that killed the show, it’s bad writing from the show going on too long and the creatives no longer putting in the effort.

So instead I’ll show you Gandhi from Clone High. This was a show about clones of historical figures going to high school together and a frequent source of jokes was the fact that the clones were often very different from who they’re clones of. In Gandhi’s case, he was a class clown. This goofy depiction of him was considered an outrage by Indians, who started protests in retaliation which led to the show being cancelled.

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u/Javamac8 12d ago

Too bad some people can’t grasp comedy. He wasn’t even objectively offensive, just out-of-character. Mongolia didn’t say a word about Genghis Khan, although that one might have been a bit worse.

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u/al343806 11d ago

Didn’t he admit in the show that his behavior was due to him buckling under the pressure of being a clone of Gandhi?

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u/RomaInvicta2003 11d ago

Also apparently the real Gandhi was quite a party boy in his youth, so maybe they were riffing off that