Bad OC cliches for animated movies?

Subject: Bad OC cliches for animated movies?
Author: SkarmorySilver
Posted on: 2014-12-07 22:03:00 UTC

I've been thinking about this for quite a while now, and I've decided that it would be good to have the Board help out for a bit. I'm making a list of the common types of bad OCs (Sues, etc.) that appear in badfic of animated movies, like that HTTYD fic Neshomeh tackled once or the Incredibles badfic from my very first mission. I've got a 'descendant of an implausible pairing', a 'ridiculously OP hybrid', and a 'Sailor Earth'-type character, but now I'm a bit stuck.

So, anybody have any more ideas? About three or four will do - I don't want to overdo what I'm planning with this list, after all. ;)

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Bad OC cliches for animated movies? by SkarmorySilver on 2014-12-07 22:03:00 UTC

Just movies? by TheShyIon on 2014-12-08 00:32:00 UTC Reply

These can apply to badfic of pretty much everything:

Dies, falls into the canon (usually a Stu, but I see it happen with Sues as well)

Suddenly, the team always had another member!

Suddenly, they're scouting out talent and this person is so awesome!

Suddenly, the canon characters are villains! (OC as the anti-hero fighting against them. This can be done very well, but is often... not.)

Constantly swearing, wears black and purple, much darker than the actual setting, possibly adds gore where there should be no gore.

The daughters and sons of the canons continue their adventures!

Way too smart for a teenager.

Kids joining adult teams.

Wears an improbably skimpy outfit, seduces canons.

Reads like a straw feminist caricature.

Kills a canon character.

This probably reads a bit more like a charge list than what you were looking for, but at least some of it should hopefully be useful.

late reply is late by SkarmorySilver on 2014-12-09 21:53:00 UTC Reply

I was thinking of stuff specifically related to animated movies (like a dragon-human hybrid in the HTTYD universe, such as Kana from that one HTTYD mission). Here, lemme check through the list...

The ones I think I can use are "excessively talented", "darker and edgier" (the badfic I wrote/sporked in my very first mission was horribly guilty of that, sorry to say), "canon seducer", and "straw feminist". Don't know if I can use the ones that deform the canons' personalities, but they're definitely things an author wraith could do; killing them off is definitely not going to work with what I'm doing. The children of the canons can be done right if written well, but if they're from improbable pairings like Syndrome/Violet in The Incredibles canon, then NAWP, sorry.

Yeah, I think that should hopefully be enough. This is gonna be fun! *chuckles evilly*

Glad you found some stuff you can use! (nm) by TheShyIon on 2014-12-11 01:33:00 UTC Reply