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Are there any truly unsympathetic MALE characters in this strip?
mike837go:
Ah, yes forgot about them. Thanks.
We' haven't heard much from Agent Turing lately.
But, Dale, oooohhh I would like to see him given a one-way bus ride. Grrrr.
Carl-E:
No bus, but a comeuppance would be nice.
The whole Gendo thing is really getting annoying. I wanna see Mari-chan dancing on the ashes of his dark-elf-or-whatever-he-plays-in-WoW.
Oh, and Steve is only marginally sympathetic, at best. I've never really been fond of him. No matter how kick-ass his exploits were, he's still a bit of a dick.
John_Knee:
--- Quote from: Boomslang on 27 May 2011, 12:31 ---Dale is unsympathetic.
He's creepy, he keeps showing up when he isn't wanted, and he's all but threatened Marigold. He's almost to the point where she should take a restraining order out against him.
--- End quote ---
But you don't see a potential love interest there? They are both of different rival servers - I am thinking a Romeo and Juliet angle here, but any get together is very very very much in the future.
Hostilities started with Marigold anyway:
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1668
Round two, Marigold tells Dale to bring it....
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1680
And then Dale pops up now and again and only comments concerning WoW rather than any direct threat against her physically. I see all of his comments to be base upon server rivalty rather than a desire to see harm to her.
Tergon:
I submit that for a strict definition of "Unsympathetic", it is unlikely that anyone in the comic has felt sympathy for Jimbo. Awe, disgust, head-shaking astonishment, the desire for an air freshener, but not sympathy.
But for a more straightforward explanation, I just don't think Jeph likes writing arseholes. A totally unsympathetic character is a two-dimensional one, as I'm sure we all agree, and he likes to flesh them out a bit. The closest he's come to a genuinely bad person in QC was the VespaVenger, and even she had a Freudian excuse and a website full of fans.
Also, with regards to Dale: I've said in other threads that if you try to slant your perspective just a little, what he's doing is actually as creepy as all hell with serious stalker and implied-threat undertones. Pretty much everyone in-universe takes him with good humour, and when he's not trying to intimidate Marigold he's a regular guy, but I'd like to see more of him as a person rather than a rejected Saturday Morning Cartoon villian.
Tanksenior:
I find Dale to be pretty sympathetic to be honest, he and Marigold have always been a bit flirty.
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