Cartoon/Western Animation General

@Angrybrony  
Ahhhh, he got the reference, folks.

How many Grinch movies need to be made?

@TheHappySpaceman  
708.

@Angrybrony  
Ew.
 
All seriousness, the original animated one was good enough as it was. We don’t need it remade twice. And I don’t trust Illumination after their last attempt to adapt Dr. Seuss (not to mention all their other movies ranging from meh to terrible).

@TheHappySpaceman  
Like 5,000,000.  
Not counting the Original Cartoon and the Jim Carrey version of course.

@TheHappySpaceman  
I actually really like the jim carrey one.

@igotnopicks  
These movies and the plethora of A Christmas Carol/Scrooge movies aren’t doing any favors for people like me who don’t like Christmas.

@PonyPon  
So do I, but I’m excited we’re getting full length animated retelling.

Can’t stand how watered-down and cuddly they made the Grinch in this version. This is a hard pass for me.
 
Oh, and Max’s mullet is just dumb.

@PonyPon  

 
The Grinch is one of my favorite movies of 2000

Are the 2010s the decade of female protagonists in cartoons? Look at all the cartoons that came out with female protagonists:
 
MLP  
Miraculous Ladybug  
Star vs. the Forces of Evil  
Korra  
Littlest Pet Shop  
Doc McStuffins  
Sofia the First
 
And that’s not even counting the upcoming cartoons with female protagonists:
 
Twelve Forever  
Infinity Train  
Amphibia  
The Owl House

@Background Pony #9B1E  
This is a good thing. You need to have both an equal amount of male protagonists and female protagonists without it being labeled a manly show and a girly show like in the past.

The big hero six series has some great waifus.😍  
 

@Background Pony #9B1E  
In all honesty, female protagonists are far easier to write since you’re much more flexible with its character. However, the main problem is that young boys tend to avoid shows like these due to the girls doing cool stuff.

For the record, I find writing a female protagonist easier than a male one. I’m pretty sure a number of female writers would also say the same with male characters instead of female. I guess since we act as an observer, we can write both the good and bad of the opposite sex due to US having no shame in doing so. Or something like that.

@HJSDGCE, God’s Wrath  
Oddly enough, same. And agreed about the huge problems with shows being gendered. I honestly fell for this growing up; because of this, I never wanted to experience the joy of The Powerpuff Girls because I thought it was a girls’ show. I’m glad to see that we’re finally breaking through those barriers.

Are Western Comics still dominated by Capeshit and Self Inserts?

@TheHappySpaceman  
I actually grew up watching girls’ shows so this was never a problem to me. I actually have problems watching boys’ shows because the they often lack the fluidity in animation (since they focus their budget on action scenes) and it got me bored real quick.

@HJSDGCE, God’s Wrath  
I just believe in removing gender distinctions from future cartoons. Some girls’ shows can be appealing to boys, and vice versa, but we shouldn’t have everything about them riding on their target gender.

@TheHappySpaceman  
Not to mention, shows shouldn’t really be locked to one gender or be one just a single one.

@EPPony  
Thank you! Hell, it’s not even boys’ or girls’ shows that are necessarily the issue, but they’re so ridiculously so.
 
Kim Possible is a girls’ show, but it’s great. Compare that with Totally Spies or that Mary-Kate and Ashley cartoon, and… ugh.

@TheHappySpaceman  
Indeed and that’s not counting how annoying the double standards are either.

@EPPony  
TBH, when watching Totally Spies, I thought that with how much they were playing up girls’ cartoon tropes (e.g. the characters being valley girl stereotypes, the parachutes being flower-shaped) the show may have been a parody of those tropes. But no, it’s dead serious.
 
And the fetish fuel is surprisingly harder to find than I thought.

@TheHappySpaceman  
Everytime I think of Totally Spies, I always think of it as an anime version of “Charlie’s Angels”, despite it being produced in Europe.

Both are cringe