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* Only in the TV specials, of course. In the strip, adults often get speech bubbles.

He constantly fails at absolutely everything he tries. He is ridiculed by his peers and treated poorly by his parents. He is frequently cheated out of his money by Lucy and never seems to say anything right. But after everyone quits his baseball team, he gets so mad he kicks their hats - and ''they all land on his head''. He's clearly a talented individual; some mysterious force is trying to make the normally gentle Charlie Brown into a [[Super Soldier|super-soldier]] capable of incredible feats.

* The scary part is, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130831145148/http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/weaponbrown/weaponbrown.html this has been done].

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060624124135/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5494832469489844003&q=bring+me+the+head+of+charlie+brown&total=29&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 Twice.]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100313170648/http://www.cinematical.com/photos/frank-millers-charlie-brown/1419750/ And again].

And then he died. Brown is now in Purgatory, suffering through a million petty torments to make up for his actions as a super-soldier.

Come on. His piano is a toy covering ''one octave''. It's physically impossible to play Beethoven's works on it. But they're just kids, and his striking random keys sounds just as good and authentic to them.

* Adults do sometimes get dialogue, though.

* Patty--speakingPatty—speaking to her friend--makesfriend—makes an obliquely-slangy remark which (in effect) compares Marcie to Billie Jean King. (Who she ''does'' kinda look like.) BTW Charles Schulz (a straight among straights) was good friends with King in [[Real Life]]. Which is suspicious, because Charles Schulz '''never had''' friends.

*** It's [[Tropers/Evil Midnight Lurker|my]] firm belief that, six to ten years in their nebulous future, Charlie Brown will wake up one morning and realize that [[OT 3OT3|(a) last night wasn't a dream, (b) those really are Peppermint Patty snuggled up to one side of him and Marcie snuggled up to the other, (c) this is pretty much the way it's going to be from now on, and]][[Earn Your Happy Ending|(d) all the suckiness of his preteen years was totally worth it.]]

The main hint would be the shirts. They're both the Butt Monkey of their respective universes, even at the times when they're not doing anything particularly bad. They also both never seem to get what they want, no matter how close they get. When they do, it's either a rare case of Throw The Dog A Bone, or the much more common Yank The Dogs Chain (Charlie: Kicking the football, Eddy: Jawbreakers.)

== On [[It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown|Halloween]], Charlie Brown dressed up as [[Watchmen (comics)|Rorschach]] ==

You may recall [[Grant Morrison]] and his claim that in his book ''[[The Invisibles]]'', his author avatar got lucky as part of a magical working to bring him similar... luck. The entirety of ''[[Peanuts]]'' is a reversal of that working.

* Charles Schulz grew more famous, wealthy, and beloved in ''exact'' proportion to the degree that Charlie Brown suffered.

* Charlie Brown was his [[Author Avatar]].

* In interviews, he admitted guilt over the constant need to make Charlie Brown the [[Chew Toy|goat]], and all his life he suffered from depression over the disconnect between his fame and his self-loathing -- andloathing—and then from the difficulty of making his avatar's life suck when his really didn't anymore.

* And the day the last strip ran -- theran—the day he stopped tormenting Charlie Brown -- heBrown—he died.

** That's because the guilt got to be too much for Charles Schulz, and he had to [[Throw the Dog a Bone]], resulting in his failing health. He finally had Charlie Brown break up with Peggy Jean because he grew scared that if their relationship got too permanent, Charlie Brown would become secure and he'd lose everything he had.

Charlie Brown fails at everything, everyone makes fun of him, and his life generally sucks. That will probably cause him to eventually become a jerk. The comic strip of ''Peanuts'', however, shows his life as a decent guy slowly suffering and turning into a jerk, rather than him actually being one.

== Marcie grew up to be Honey from Doonesbury. ==

Marcie was born in China and given the name Hua Ni. When her parents immigrated to America, her name was changed to Marcie so she'd have an easier time fitting in. She was smart and friendly and good at learning languages. (She learned English, Mandarin and French fluently before age 10) It would explain why her family never celebrated Easter and why she made egg drop soup when Peppermint Patty told her to cook the eggs. In adolescence, Marcie was bitterly disappointed in her unreturned love for Charlie Brown. She moved back to China and went back to her birth name and got a job as a translator. She met Uncle Duke, who pronounced her name as "Honey". Honey looks like an adult Marcie with dark, jaw length hair and thick glasses. She is unfailingly polite, calling Duke "sir" constantly, but having occasional outbursts when her sense of right and wrong is challenged. Unfortunately for her, her love for Uncle Duke will end as tragically as it did for Charlie Brown, if not more so.

* And Linus was wearing glasses for a while.

But he still won't ever kick that football.

He gets along fine w/ some; others, not so much. Obsessed with Beethoven and his piano. Likes being around all the dancing fun, but doesn't dance, just plays DJ. Possible savant. Plus, Schulz has already recognized mental irregularity (Lucy's psychiatry stand), which was pretty advanced for its time. In Schroeder, he's shown children that differently-abled citizens can be fun, productive, highly-skilled pals.

With the amount of junk Snoopy drags out of it it has to be bigger on the inside. It can fly. I propose the doghouse is in fact a TARDIS. Woodstock makes a fine companion.

Lucy somehow manages to get Charlie Brown to kick the football every year, even though she's '''never''' let him actually kick it. Her power: [[Charm Person]].

Charlie Brown: When he kicks a stack of hats, they all land on his head. When Lucy pulls the football away, he goes flying, implying an awful lot of force. His power: Super Kick.

* This is actually implied. There's a strip in which he heads to the Christmas Pageant, not having prepared, and starts reciting the Gospel of Matthew from the beginning ("The book of the generation of Jesus Christ..."), continuing with the Nativity narrative. As they walk out, Lucy bitterly says, "Why didn't you just start with the Book of Genesis while you were at it?" and he tells her not to be so negative. Oddly enough, a few earlier strips had him angsting over having to memorize Scripture for the pageant, only to learn it at the last possible second. My guess is that, fearing he'd one day slip up and not memorize his lines until too late, he just learned the entire Bible.