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- Oct 5, 2018
@AnOminous The Wogglebug can never be a registered sex offender anymore than Barney the Dinosaur can be.
@Blood Debts I am going to refuse your idea of giving the Wogglebug modest clothes when he first appears. Because it would just be too unrealistic. The picture book is only told from the Wogglebug's point of view at the start of his living a sentient life. But the screenplay it's based on goes into detail from Knowitall's point of view and shows how he created wogglebugs, did some experiments to determine the one he wanted to be for his great plan to save Genoma and then just placed him on the rug by the hearth next to his desk. He obviously had no way of being able to make him clothes when he was that small as he created him with science and not with magic after all. His story is just unique from those bugs in James and the Giant Peach. And I like it that way. And I don't care who finds his first appearing naked as creepy. I think he's adorable and dignified with or without clothes.
You do realize that you have a literal talking bug for a kid's media and you bitch about it being unrealistic to give it clothes even though it can already talk and has human-like intelligence? I'm pretty sure it's fine to have enough suspension of disbelief and give the damn thing some ratty looking clothes to make it come off less child molester-y and more scrappy but lovable character as animals in kids cartoons acting like humans and wearing clothes is a trope as old as the medium of animation to make said animal more charming. Also because the idea of a naked grown-ass bug being near children has way more horrific implications than if it was dressed in a raggedy coat.