Dat Flowchart

[paperclipchains]

Four other people on your f-list have probably linked this by now, but I'm stepping up to bat anyway.

This is a flow chart for determining whether female characters are well-written/worthwhile or not. Now I will tell you why this chart is bad

Comments

[ansemaru]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Having seen that chart, I'd picked up on a lot of the same flaws that you'd noticed (especially the bit that essentially dismisses every female character who isn't a protagonist as weak, wtf). You put it in way more coherent words than I could have possibly managed, though.

...hmmm, doing this for male characters would be fun, but difficult. I'd be up for it if I could get help.

[paperclipchains]

Probably wouldn't be so hard, you just use this one as a template and come up with appropriate counterexamples. You could probably get the ideas for it with a Dbrainstorm.

[ansemaru]

Good thought! My biggest problem would be making the shiny graphic for it, likely.

[rosehiptea]

It would be nice to see someone put together one of these for male characters, because it would almost definitely be just as exhaustive.

I'd love to see that. I don't, however, have the fandom knowledge to do it myself.

[gargantsurprise]

> Does she get pregnant?
>> Yes

> Is she a teenager?
>> No

> Then she needs a man.

At which point you're taken back to the 'is she mainly a love interest?' option. There is so much wrong here I don't even know. (And that's without even pointing out that you can't get to the pregnancy question without passing through love interest. Does the flow chart think it's correcting me?)

[paperclipchains]

There's sort of. Much too much to even take apart. It's messed up in so many ways.

[asylumiss]

excuse me Peach had her own game and got shit done in that apparently

This is a ridiculous hart, the creators could have at least provided an example of who they think is a strong female character.

Now I hope a male version eventually does surface, and that it's just as unforgiving.

[sisterjune]

Dude my sister would kick my ass so many times with Peach in super smash brothers melee. Peach is hardcore ok. this is a chart of SUCK.

[paperclipchains]

Personally I like characters that represent ideas.

[sisterjune]

same