/co/ - Comics & Cartoons

>The PPG attracts a lot of autism

You're not wrong, but PPG is way behind other cartoons in that aspect. Like, waaaaay behind…

Sonic, Transformers, Disney productions, Star Wars, Star Trek, Scooby Doo… countless IPs that have cartoons that are more attractive to the autistic than PPG.

How long you think the debate about the canonical status of Clone Wars would be around casual fans?

How violent you think it would be around hardcore fans? Heck, bring up Midiclorians and prepare you ears for the autistic screeching.

These are cartoons. Cartoons, games, comics, fantasy shows and movies, all things that attract children, and the autistic are child-like. There's your answer.

My wife goes wild when she even looks at the latter designs of Rainbow Brite, she rages about the lack or artistic integrity, and she's not even a fan of the show. She has never even seen it, she just likes the dolls (but only the original dolls).

So now think what a hardcore fan would do. My point is, cartoons turn even normals into raging autists temporarily.

But I can go full-circle here, because my wife just so happens to be a fan of some dolls and Rainbow Brite hasn't been as popular a PPG for decades. Well, go to YouTube and see the reviews for the PPG reboot.

It's nothing but people acting like my wife, dude. They have a point, don't get me wrong, but at the end of the day it's autistic.

>>1002943

How the fuck are Transformers more autistic than PPG? They're far more sophisticated and have an extensive lore that only the high-functioning on the spectrum can hope to follow. Just because the robots are colorful and the names sound like pure sci-fi cheese doesn't mean they attract more autism than the objectively far more childish PPG.

Also, is your wife into DDLG? Kinda sounds like she'd be the type for it

>>1003236

>How the fuck are Transformers more autistic than PPG?

Dunno. let's experiment: I'll ask you about the canonical status of the Beast Wars anime and where it fits in the Beast Machines timeline. Here's the question:

What's your personal opinion about the canonical status of the Beast Wars anime? And where does it fit in the Beast Machines timeline?

Now, the experiment was you reading the question and I don't need an answer, because one of two things happened just now: you either have an answer, which is autistic as fuck, or you've confronted the fact that you don't have an answer which has made you either interested in researching (also autistic as fuck) or disregard the question. If you disregard the question, I can guarantee you have an autistic reason for doing so:

"Only this and that show are canon, BUT NOT THAT ONE, and this other one is canon but only the first season and the last episode of season 2"

or

"I haven't watched this and that show because I know it contradicts the setup of this or that director, which created a plothole because this Autobot event didn't happen before that Decepticon adventure, and I REFUSE TO WATCH IT ON PRINCIPLE REEEEEEEE!"

Do the Michael Bay movies downright trigger you?

You cannot escape this, bro. Oh, but your question was "how the fuck are Transformers more autistic than PPG"

It's not, the fans are. All hardcore fans of specific properties are autistic about that one thing.

>is your wife into DDLG?

I googled it and got "dang diddly large guy", something called "devotion picture", and "Daddy Dom x Little Girl" which I hope is related to roleplay only.

I'm into it but seems to annoy her. Gives me an extra hard bone to treat her like a LG during foreplay so I sometimes do it, when I fear my boner may fail. I do it for her, really.

>>1003236

>You haven't seen xheir forums

>>1003364

But what if you don't care about Transformers? What then? Does the question become irrelevant?

>>1002940

The tism' levels of any series can be measured by how easy it is to create your "OC" fur/car/PPG/hedge/Jedi/sona.

I'm no stranger to it, as a kid I wanted my edgy lightsaber or duel disk designs to be canon and be the most powerful Sith and shit, keyword: kid.

Another great way to aggregate autism to your work is by non-organic cataloging of its characters, like >>1002943 says. Ranking by power level/Midiclorians/Mutant tiers/etc. is classic autism, even if the show itself is a bit smarter and teaches that power levels aren't everything to call a character superior autistic fans will non the less use it to their "sonas" benefit

>>1003525

Except it's pretty easy to create "OCs" for any series. It's as simple as bullshitting a character and inserting it into the series. I find what really makes OCs manifest from fandoms is fantasy races and how easily the universe allows for new characters. Things like Sonic, Homestuck and Star Wars basically set themselves up for OC shit by having multiple races and expansive worlds. People can make their OC and have it detached from the canon material if they want.

I find the Eva example to be hilarious because I actively sought out Eva OC to laugh at once and didn't find much. Because Eva doesn't follow these rules of easy OC generation. For an OC Eva pilot to exist they have to interact with canon material because there is only one Nerv. Which a lot of fan creators like to avoid because a lot of them like to make content that merely exists in the same universe. It's only the severe autists that actively want their characters to interact with official characters.

What makes a series drive fans to create OCs and fan fiction has always been a huge interest to me because I've always wondered why no one seems to be trying to deliberately engineer their book/movie/game around this because it basically prints money.

>>1003538

>Because Eva doesn't follow these rules of easy OC generation.

>expansive worlds.

This too.

Another great common theme in autism is DEEP LORE sperging,

Specially when said world for the deep lore is ill defined at best, EVA has a pretty defined world so sperging about your own interpretation of the show itself is harder, even if everyone has their own interpretation pretty much all of them gravitate around the same central ideas.

On the other side of the oh so very long spectrum we have Steven Universe even if we cut all the filler drivel we still have at least thrice the episodes EVA had of pure world building, yet somehow we have general concepts about what happened in the lore of the show but only an actual confirmation at much as twice a season, the rest is just kinda referencing to something… sometime… that rarely affects the actual plot, and it would be fine if they didn't take it so seriously.

So if I go on a rant about EVA shit it isn't as crappy because there's something to talk about, on the other side I can just make up bullshit for SU and it would be as possible and logical as anything the creators have come up with but haven't showed.

I think the SU technique done relatively better can be found in Naruto, they have the same world building style and it has even a slower pace but the rules of said world have been defined almost to annoyance, so in fan pages, when someone makes an OC you can see the rest of the fandom testing the character so see if it fits the world's rules, the SU OCs rules are just "Rock name + cool design At least better than anything the authors have made.", not to mention that when something is important lore they actually show it unless is a massive spoiler.

>>1003525

It'll be hard to surpass Cuphead in this factor since it is a game where even designs based on inanimate objects are valid, so anything goes

>>1002940

Color coordination

>>1006612

>Digimon

>action without any testosterone

>>1014744

>>1014749

>>1014733

Say what you will about Jojo it's definitely not manly. FoTNS might be somewhat but not much. Has there ever even been a single masculine figure in the past century?

>>1014755

>>1014757

Seems more likely you're a triggered ATfag.

>>1014755

>Jojo

>not manly

The fuck am I reading?