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Topic | Dated characters and concepts that still exist in modern media |
Punished_Blinx 02/21/24 9:13:39 PM #1: | Sometimes it's because it's a long running IP and sometimes it's because stuff is creatively bankrupt.
Like Otto the bus driver in The Simpsons. He is now based on a slacker stereotype from over three decades ago. Guys like him are in their late 40s and 50s now. Peter Parker being an Spider-Man's exclusive photographer for a newspaper sounds ridiculous now. But most depictions seem to have moved away from that. Sci-fi and futuristic settings still want to ignore the internet, messaging and social media being a thing. People will talk via holograms and video calls or leave voice and text memos behind. The internet doesn't exist. Mobile phones don't exist. It's more likely that there's a futuristic version of a newspaper. What are some other examples? --- A Fallen Mascot ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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