The process by which a single trait from a character is overstated and brandished
to the point that it becomes the character's only trait. Flanderization is
almost always for
the worst and tends to draw viewers away from the the medium that the character represents.
Nick: I don't get it. Why is it that
Brian Griffin was the
voice of reason in earlier seasons of
Family Guy, but now he is just a liberal douche?
Mark: Ever since the flanderization of the main characters back in season 4, the show really has taken a turn for the worst.