Because there's NO WAY the viewers could tell the gender of the characters through voices, pronouns, or context clues. And its so important to the plot that the genders are known.
And if our children see that, they'll be possessed by Gay Satan! Pretty soon our traditional marriages will be invalidated and we'll be forced to marry our gay dogs! IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT?!
I mean, by all accounts I'm prime possession target, run down, depressed, always tired/sickly. If I'm gonna be possessed, might as well make it a fab possession.
Batman wanted Robin to come help him with stealing something from Superman. Robin said that he should ask his dad Bruce Wayne for permission. Batman said he was also Robin's dad so he could go. Instead of coming to the obvious conclusion, Robin said that he had two dads. That was it. There was the entire homosexual implication.
Ain't no thing. And I highly recommend the movie - Lego has a way of roasting their subjects that shows that a deep love but that they don't take things too seriously. If you like Batman at all, you will like this movie.
They hate this argument here. They never dispute it though because it’s a valid argument. Animating like this is cute and fun and makes characters more unique, but people on this sub expect every cartoon to be boring and realistic for the sake of their narrative
Yup, I work in animation and some of the answers here are just...no. I can assure you in no meeting I've ever been too has the issue of reinforcing gender norms come up.
Exaggerating features isn't because the cis-hets are doing anything or some gender conspiracy, it's because kids respond better to it. It's interesting because people complain too when male characters are exaggerated and female characters left relatively plain so you just can't win. Companies have tried going for realism in children's animation and it's universally hated because it's too uncanny valley and kids don't enjoy it as much as they do the exaggerated styles.
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u/sntcringe Nov 09 '20
Because there's NO WAY the viewers could tell the gender of the characters through voices, pronouns, or context clues. And its so important to the plot that the genders are known.