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Character Assassination

1. To deliberately destroy someone’s good reputation by exaggerating their flaws, spreading negative falsehoods, and/or manipulating facts.

2. (In fiction) When a normally sympathetic and/or intelligent character is derailed with bad writing by an author and/or creator erasing previously established positive development exaggerating their worst flaws (flanderdization), and/or by making them behave in out of character (OOC) ways that make them come across as unsympathetic and stupid out of nowhere for the sake of creating cheap shock value, forcing a character into the villain role with no organic lead up, retreading previously established character development by undoing it of nowhere to do it all over again, and/or in order for the creator/author to prop up another character and/or ship they unfairly favor as “good” and/or “redeemed” without having to actually put in any sort of effort to develop their favorites in to people who are actually behaving in ways that make them worthy of redemption by attempting to emotionally manipulate the audience to forget about the bad ways in which their favorites have behaved and/or the bad things their favorite character has done by deliberately pulling a character assassination on other characters and/or ships to make them seem just as bad, if not worse, in comparison to their favorites.
1. Who wrote these lies about me in this article? I’m not the horrible person they are making me out to be here! This is character assassination!

2. Emma Swan from Once Upon A Time was such a badass, intelligent, kindhearted, and selfless young woman. Then, she got set up with Hook, and became a mean-spirited, violent, and selfish sidekick to him on her own show. What horrible character assassination!
by AliceKettle January 31, 2021
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purple character

the “purple” character is stereotypically rich, vibrant, powerful, artistic, and/or mysterious! examples would be the following: effy stonem, jade west, rue (euphoria), joker, emily prentiss!
by julesbabey March 22, 2021
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Defecation of character

Defecation of character is what happens when someone shits on your name in a public forum.
You: "Oh, man! Brittany just called me a ho on Facebook because I said I liked her crush."

Your friend: "Wow, that's defecation of character."
by gingermom September 29, 2009
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Main character

Someone who you can make a movie about and have it be interesting they are quirky and not basic
You guys are the main characters“
by .meagansmith May 19, 2020
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Comfort character

A comfort character is when a character, which can be from a TV show, game, book etc makes you feel safe and happy when upset, sad, down etc.
“When I feel sad, I think about Anakin . He is my comfort character and makes me feel happy.”
by celi.ts February 6, 2021
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side character

me.
by a side character. February 24, 2023
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breakout character

on a TV show, or in a series of movies, the breakout character is the character that comes out of nowhere and steals the show.
The Fonz, Alex P. Keaton, Steve Urkle, and Stewie Griffin are all breakout characters.
by Drama_King January 28, 2009
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