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Ho boy. Time for ethnic-doppleganger Dora.

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Napoleon_Blownapart:
I get the idea that sometimes there's this stereoytpical person you'll run into, no matter where you go. Like no matter what company you work for, there's always a total jackass in your office that nobody likes, or the guy who knows precisely how to rob the place, did a ton of acid in his youth and saw aliens, etc - you get the idea.

But this is ridiculous. So Dora and Faye have indian dopplegangers now who also run a coffee shop? It was funny as a one-off joke about how you may run into character types from time to time, and I had hoped it would end there. And now Marten's gonna cosy up with Padma, but not at all because she's Dora-lite. Right then. :psyduck:

It's official: QC has just jumped the shark. Jeph, you have run out of ideas for character personalities.

Lubricus:
So far we know next to nothing about Padma's personality. I can't imagine that she'll turn out to be all that similar to Dora.

pwhodges:
Apart from the initial joke remark when Marten referred to an "alternate-universe Coffee of Doom" on account of the general sense of angst and disaster, there is no basis whatsoever for the characterisation of Padma and Renee as versions of Dora and Faye.

What's ridiculous is that this fancy has been built up here to the extent that it has.

Napoleon_Blownapart:

--- Quote from: pwhodges on 17 Feb 2011, 03:17 ---Apart from the initial joke remark when Marten referred to an "alternate-universe Coffee of Doom" on account of the general sense of angst and disaster, there is no basis whatsoever for the characterisation of Padma and Renee as versions of Dora and Faye.
--- End quote ---

You seem to have forgotten that after meeting Faye, Padma could not shut up about how Faye is exactly like Renee in looks and personality. Seems like a pretty explicit doppleganger to me. The only way to avert this copy/paste character introduction is for Jeph to make Padma explicitly different from Dora. Time will tell if that happens.

The Seldom Killer:
Just looking at first full characterisation in episode 1857 clearly shows that any similarities end at coffeeshop ownership. In fact not even that is true because tSB is demonstrable different to CoD. Any suggestion that Padma is in some way a doppleganger of Dora or a "Dora-lite" is an unsupported fanciful notion.

As for Padma's reference to Renee and Faye, it was hardly a "couldn't shut up" and, at least from my reading, wasn't wholly serious.

I think you've read things into the comic that aren't there.

Edited to remove evidence of NP fixation, thank Mr. Hodges

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