Flat Character/Quotes

"I don't have a personality matrix so much as a personality vector."

—Max, Sam and Max Freelance Police

"You have me all wrong. I'm more than just the same joke over and over again--you're thinking of Toot."

—Princess Clara, Drawn Together

Everyone else in the movie can be summed up entirely by two-word descriptions. Danny Glover is: BLACK PRESIDENT. George Segal is: OLD DAD. Oliver Platt is: ASSHOLE BUREAUCRAT. Beatrice Rosen is: HOT WHORE. One of Cusack's kids still wets herself at age seven, an endearing character quirk until we realize that it's her defining characteristic. In fact, as the camera pulls back through the clouds to bring us the end credits, we get: "No more pull-ups!" she proudly tells a smiling Cusack. I forgot this was a plot point until she capped off the survival of humanity by reminding us of mankind's real victory: bladder control.

—Cracked on 2012

The characters... have a wide range of personalities, from "male" to "female" to "villain." Check them out!

—Oh, Internet on Sonichu.

The problem is that mainstream shonen has too rigid archetypes. Characters in mainstream shonen are presented with an archetype and that archetype is all those characters are. […]
Some people get triggered when you tell them this because you touched their waifu/husbando, and they try to use some minor irrelevant detail the character have or some minor change in the episode 120 as if that means the character is super complex, but in the end if you look at what are the defining characteristics of a mainstream shonen character in episode 1 and episode 50, they’ll be the same, and it’ll probably be just one hyperbolized trait.

—Mainstream shonens are bad by default from kukuruyo

We might as well go back and watch Katharine Hepburn run the gamut of emotions from A to B.

—Dorothy Parker, spoken remark regarding the 1933 Broadway production of The Lake, as reported by Alexander Woolcott in While Rome Burns