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Are there any truly unsympathetic MALE characters in this strip?
Boomslang:
Removed prior post so it doesn't clog up thread. I'll avoid escalating things from now on.
O8h7w:
As long as there is some humanity in a character, a human being can't help but feeling some sympathy. For a human to be truly unsympathetic, I think it's needed to limit the timeframe down to a single situation.
A truly one-sided character isn't human. And Jeph writes the computers in this strip as pretty human characters...
Is it cold in here?:
PT-410X's owner, if s/he turns out to be male.
Frappucino fratboy.
bunnyThor:
I would say that early Angus was more sympathetic than current Angus.
Early Angus was this guy who was attracted to someone, but was totally crap at guessing the right way to approach her, but persevered anyways. He took a couple of shots at it from a couple different angles, and then after a sufficient number of failures, disappeared from the scene, probably to try his luck somewhere more suitable to his style. It's hard not to be sympathetic to the guy. It's hard not to feel for a guy who is out of his element but gives it a go anyhow. And we've all been in the situation where we've just been trying to hard and then not taking the hint, or even noticing the hint until it was far too late. We've all pushed too hard and screwed things up beyond repair, even though our intentions were good.
But then we have Act II Angus. Here he is the Prodigal Angus who wanders back in after a few months and all is forgiven after some very brief and obligatory hazing. Then, without doing anything except being very very boring, he suddenly wins the heart of his maiden fair and the support of all of her friends, despite the complete nuisance he had made of himself earlier. Are we supposed to be sympathetic with that? Someone who effortlessly shrugs off his past, does nothing interesting or exceptional, but becomes the Popular Boy who wins the Sexy Smart Sassy Queen? A guy that is so unfathomably awesome that after he shoots down a shy girl who has bravely given him her first kiss, that same shy girl does an abrupt heel turn and blesses his union with the Queen? How are we supposed to feel sympathetic to a guy who was suddenly given great gifts and accolades, without doing anything to earn them?
Is it cold in here?:
Thought-provoking!
I would quibble, though, on one point of the description of Angus 1.0. The Pugnacious Peach went way beyond a "hint".
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