UselessPieceOfShit
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- Jul 25, 2021
The problem with Wogglebug is that he is not a fun character. He doesn't really have a kid appeal and is quite boring for adults.
I'd figure kids would like a kid hero in a movie. Well, we have Sylvia as audience's surrogate, but her companion Wogglebug is fucking boring. Adults in kid's media should be cool and adventurous. And be hip in "how do you do, fellow kids" way. Kinda how we have teen turteles in TMNT but also we have old mentor Splinter. Except he is not some boring ass granda, he is badass mutated warrior who happens to be old. Who wants an adult in a kid movie who acts like a boring jerkass and teaches you good manners? Bleh. Kids watch cartoons because they show other kids going on adventures and having fun WITHOUT adults watching over them.
You don't even need to make smart characters act smart. Like how Reed Richards is the smartest man in Marvel comics, but he acts as a spastic idiot around people. Still readers think that he is smart, it's his trademark really. Same thing can be done with Wogglebug. I think it would be an interesting thing to make him autistic actually. This way Cherie can handwave him acting stupid as a sign of autism. But make him a savant, so he can show his intelligence as a scientist or some sort of inventor. She doesn't even need to do reaserch, as she can just explain all his inventions as magic or some novel Genoma science. Actually making him autistic would give her some cred, as Woggie can be marketed as a represantation of autistic people. It can be taken further, like how Sylvia is autistic too, and doesn't go along with her peers well, but older spastic Wogglebug who learned how to deal with people shares his experience with Sylvia. Idk, that sort of thing.
P.S. I actually mentioned Reed Richards from Fantastic Four and he is an interesting character to compare to Wogglebug. In 90s and early 2000s he was written as rude turbo-autist with loose morals and kinda off-puting personality, pretty similar to Wogglebug. But more modern comics show him as a more positive guy who loves his family and always tries to do the right thing, even if it's not a morally good thing to do. Kinda how you take a jerkass character (like Wogglebug), but make him somewhat nicer (which can be done with Wogglebug).
