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* [[Older Than They Look]]: Looks like a 40-something-that-looks-young-for-his-age
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Looks like a 40-something-that-looks-young-for-his-age
* [[Only Sane Man]]
* [[Only Sane Man]]
* [[Parents As People]]: He and comics do not get along often. He has his moments, though.
* [[Parents as People]]: He and comics do not get along often. He has his moments, though.
* [[Team Dad]]: To the Prints, [[Parental Substitute|particularly to Journalism]]. To his actual son, however...
* [[Team Dad]]: To the Prints, [[Parental Substitute|particularly to Journalism]]. To his actual son, however...
* [[Time Abyss]]: He has no stated age and is implied to be very old.
* [[Time Abyss]]: He has no stated age and is implied to be very old.
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* [[Heroic Build]]: For a skinny dude, he's quite buff.
* [[Heroic Build]]: For a skinny dude, he's quite buff.
* [[Hippie Parents]]: Art and Literature.
* [[Hippie Parents]]: Art and Literature.
* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]
* [[Made of Iron]]
* [[Made of Iron]]
* [[Mister Imagination]]
* [[Mister Imagination]]
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== The [[Audio Visuals]] ==
== The [[Audio Visuals]] ==
Characterized by their adherence to the [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|simultaneous use of audio and visual equipment]], usually for broadcast or home consumption.
Characterized by their adherence to the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|simultaneous use of audio and visual equipment]], usually for broadcast or home consumption.


* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]
* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]
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* [[Executive Meddling]]: Often ends up being controlled by this, but he does this for his survival and it isn't always bad.
* [[Executive Meddling]]: Often ends up being controlled by this, but he does this for his survival and it isn't always bad.
* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Jerkass]]
** [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: He has a soft spot for children
** [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: He has a soft spot for children
*** [[Friend to All Children]]
*** [[Friend to All Children]]
* [[Madness Mantra]]: RATINGS
* [[Madness Mantra]]: RATINGS
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* [[The Big Guy]] / [[The Brute]]: Depending on whether
* [[The Big Guy]] / [[The Brute]]: Depending on whether
* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]
* [[Happily Married]]: To Video
* [[Happily Married]]: To Video
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Radio
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Radio
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* [[Teen Genius]]
* [[Teen Genius]]


== '''Intranet—[[Everything's Better With Bob|Robert]] Licklider Bell''' ==
== '''Intranet—[[Everything's Better with Bob|Robert]] Licklider Bell''' ==
Represents Internet-like localized internal networks. Dressed similarly to his identical twin brother Internet.
Represents Internet-like localized internal networks. Dressed similarly to his identical twin brother Internet.


* [[The Dutiful Son]]
* [[The Dutiful Son]]
* [[Everything's Better With Bob]]
* [[Everything's Better with Bob]]
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: A reclusive, level-headed, but kind of limited in knowledge as opposed to his brother who is extraverted, mouthy, and ludicrously knowledgeable.
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: A reclusive, level-headed, but kind of limited in knowledge as opposed to his brother who is extraverted, mouthy, and ludicrously knowledgeable.
** [[Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling]]: The "responsible" one.
** [[Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling]]: The "responsible" one.
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* [[Geek Physique]]: He's short.
* [[Geek Physique]]: He's short.
* [[Hollywood Nerd]]
* [[Hollywood Nerd]]
* [[Parents As People]]: Keeps Internet, who gives him all sorts of viruses, within arm's distance through a [[Visual Pun|wall of fire.]]
* [[Parents as People]]: Keeps Internet, who gives him all sorts of viruses, within arm's distance through a [[Visual Pun|wall of fire.]]
* [[Parental Favoritism]]
* [[Parental Favoritism]]
* [[The Patriarch]]
* [[The Patriarch]]
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* [[Friend to All Children]]: He'd hate to admit this, but yeah.
* [[Friend to All Children]]: He'd hate to admit this, but yeah.
* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]
* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]
* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: A [[Nice Guy]], but way into [[Dead Baby Comedy]] and [[Naughty Tentacles]].
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: A [[Nice Guy]], but way into [[Dead Baby Comedy]] and [[Naughty Tentacles]].
** [[Covert Pervert]]
** [[Covert Pervert]]
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The blue to his half-brother's red.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The blue to his half-brother's red.

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The Prints

A media category defined by their reliance on ink, paper, and printing presses.

Print Literature—Sean Macmillan

Represents books, both fiction and nonfiction. Oldest of the prints and the patriarch of the print family. He wears a sweater vest and long sleeve shirt, evocative of an intellectual writer.

Print Journalism—Jimmy Pulitzer

Print Literature's brother. Represents newspapers and magazines. He dresses as a cross between depression-era newsboy and 40s journalist.

Cartoons and Comics—Clark Macmillian

Literature's son from Visual Art. Represents comics as a storytelling medium, including He and dad don't get along often. Closer to his uncle and his half-brother, Animation. Wears a heavy overcoat over a gray shirt with a word balloon in it.

Mail—Cody Williams

Represents the postal system. The only girl among the prints, in between Journalism and Literature. Dressed as a mail carrier.

The Audio Visuals

Characterized by their adherence to the simultaneous use of audio and visual equipment, usually for broadcast or home consumption.

Television—Walter Logie Farnsworth

The de facto leader of the media, representing the television industry and live-action TV shows. He wears a suit and a lapel mic. Video's older brother.

Video—Mary Sue Farnsworth-Phillips

TV's sister and confidante. Representing video technology. Dressed like a production manager.

Recording Industry—Vince Raymond Phillips

A tall man representing the recording industry and recording technologies. Dressed in a 70s pimp suit.

Music Video

Daughter of the Recording Industry and Video representing music videos as a distinct medium. A teenage girl dressed in party clothes.

The Digitals

Representing computer-based media, this groups marker is the almost universal presence of Nerd Glasses.

Internet—Rossum Frederick Bell

Represents the modern Internet and the culture therein. Looks like a regular (if nerdy) teenager. Son of Computer Tech and Telecommunication, and the older of a pair of identical twins.

Intranet—Robert Licklider Bell

Represents Internet-like localized internal networks. Dressed similarly to his identical twin brother Internet.

Computer Technology—Timothy Babbage Bell

Representing all of computer-based media sans networks and mobile devices. Dressed like a nerdy IT dude. Father of the digital siblings and married to Telecommunications.

ARPANET—Taylor Bell

Internet's older sister, based on the Internet's predecessor. Dressed in an American military uniform.

Podcast—Miley Bell

Video Gaming—Kirby Park

A relative to the Audiovisuals and the Digitals. Wears a stylized South Korean competitive Starcraft team jacket.

The Films

Cinema—Fritz Stevens

Animation—Charlie Steve

Representing the modern animation industry that traces its origin to the silent era. A wacky, animesque man dressed casually, wearing a backpack. Art's son from Cinema and Comics' half-brother.

Photography—Renee Daguerre

Represents photography as a technology and artform. Dressed as a stereotypical photographer. Journalism's love interest.

The Telegraphs

Represents technologies dedicated to transferring verbal and written information without the use of physical transportation. Nominally would include Internet.


Radio—Giacomo Marconi

Represents radio technology as a whole and radio broadcasting in particular. Dressed a a disk jockey.

Telegraphy—Samuel Bell

Represents the sum total of telegraphic technology up to wire. Originally a sailor, now a distinguished old gentleman in an anachronistic Victorian suit.

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