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Characters who have "Personality transplants"...
TinPenguin:
Regarding Hannelore and her ability to behave with confident single-mindedness at times and childish vulnerability at others, I am going to compare her with Mr Nutt from Unseen Academicals, for those who understand the reference.
- Her character when first introduced had the strength to lift the anvil. Now she cautiously seeks worth.
Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 01 Mar 2015, 01:55 ---Regarding Hannelore and her ability to behave with confident single-mindedness at times and childish vulnerability at others, I am going to compare her with Mr Nutt from Unseen Academicals, for those who understand the reference.
- Her character when first introduced had the strength to lift the anvil. Now she cautiously seeks worth.
--- End quote ---
I think she's the most jarring example. She's become much flatter as a character; she was more interesting in the early strips when she was introduced, before she was just trotted out when Jeph needed a punchline.
Omega Entity:
I disagree, to some degree. When Hanners was first introduced she was sassy and sarcastic just like every other female character that hd been introduced at that point. Whether it was a conscious decision or not is a separate debate, but I feel that her divergence from what she started out as has not only made her a more interesting character overall, with more depth, but has actually added more depth to the cast as a whole rather than being 'just anoother sassy female'.
DSL:
Interesting thing to do is, look at the Hannelore intro strips and apply what we've learned about her since. Looking back, that cigarette-smoking girl in the bar bathroom is terrified: Terrified at strange dude in the wrong bathroom peeing in the sink, terrified at interacting socially with a stranger, terrified at asserting herself socially. Look at it this way, and it's not the beaten-beyond-death "dichotomy" between proto-Hanners and the d'aawsome girl we know today, but the beginning.
Half Empty Coffee Cup:
--- Quote from: DSL on 01 Mar 2015, 08:43 ---Interesting thing to do is, look at the Hannelore intro strips and apply what we've learned about her since. Looking back, that cigarette-smoking girl in the bar bathroom is terrified: Terrified at strange dude in the wrong bathroom peeing in the sink, terrified at interacting socially with a stranger, terrified at asserting herself socially. Look at it this way, and it's not the beaten-beyond-death "dichotomy" between proto-Hanners and the d'aawsome girl we know today, but the beginning.
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Also, slightly later strips established that she'd been semi-stalkerishly shadowing Marten and the crew because they seemed like interesting people to get to know. So, add in another dose of social anxiety for good measure.
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