valerio wrote:...because we love the lil guy and can't just sit idle while Rick
tortures us with such style?
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torture? Oh come on, I think you are overreacting. He is just telling a story, but if you take things too seriously is your problem. All the characters have their problems, so I don't know why I should be more sympathetic with King just for being human before and bullied by his own pets when he was a kid, when there's also others characters like Sasha being maltreated by her owner, or Bino with his complex with Fido and being ignored always he is present, or Peanut with his hiding feelings, or Thomas with the unfair distribution of inheritance, etc etc, and I could make a large list.
Don't take me wrong, King is one of my favorite characters, it's just I don't like how people victimize him, because if you remember well, he wasn't a saint in his past. Call it karma or how you prefer, he is just paying for all what he done before. Besides it's not like his new life is a "torture", he have a home, friends, a girlfriend, he don't need to worry for work anymore. He have something good in his hands (paws) if you ask me, so why I should martyr him?
Stuff. wrote:
It's because
Ensemble Darkhorse.
Now you're going to waste two hours of your life. You can thank me later.
I doubt it. King was never a second character, he was protagonist since the first time he appeared as a human, being the central character of that arc (A sinister shadow) and has been the same for every arc he's appears.
The case that you cite maybe applies better for Sabrina, who until the arc "Scared Cats" she was just an extra, and only appeared two or three times (and not spoke until the arc Theme park world), but after that, she grew up as a character, and began to appear in many more arcs (and even starred some ones) and had her own prose.
GameCobra wrote: but King can rival third place.
He was always the third place, I thought that was clear. The next places I assume are between Tarot, Pete, Fido, Bino, Maxwell, Keene and Sabrina.
Sleet wrote:Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if King were more popular than Peanut and Grape.
That's because he is the only character with a continuous storyline. That's what the people feel more attracted. King is the only character that we can expect a outcome of his story because he "have one". The others characters are not much involved in it (except for Pete and Tarot maybe) and only can seeing them in isolated and not related arcs. If there was a plot (or plots) that involve more characters, probably the popularity of King could drop.
If you remember, when all the issue of the GrapeNut was in the top, they were much more popular than now but not just because the shipping stuff, It was due that you could expect a outcome of this mess, and when the outcome arrived, their popularity started to fade.
People likes drama, and loves the cliff-hanging. That's the real reason why King is so popular now.
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