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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8618099" data-attributes="member: 18">I swear this all comes back to Kender being based on children raised with the more extreme permissive parenting attitudes of the '60s through '80s, letting kids "run wild" and so on (which in practice wasn't always great for the kids in the longer run, though probably better than the ultra-discipline it tended to be a generational reaction to), but basically it ends up with Kender being a particularly bad version of "The Scrappy" as a whole because people don't automatically love characters just for being childish/childlike.EDIT: Totally irrelevant but the The Scrappy section on TVTropes is a great illustration of how much TVTropes has vanished up its own bum, because the criteria they list are so narrow they basically disallow Scrappy-Doo himself, and their Indiana Jones section doesn't even mention Short Round, who was incredible Scrappy (to kids, anyway - I know the actor is "beloved" now but jeez at the time...). Not linking because it's mean to send people into TVTropes holes, even though the site is far more boring than it used to be before the ultranerds took over.EDIT EDIT: LOL I see they do have Kender down as a more extreme form of Scrappy - "The Creator's Pet".</blockquote>