Similarities to other fictional characters

[Seymour Glass]

Vice Principal Nero reminds me of Miss Trunchbull from Matilda. They're both stupid. They both hate children. They both make up outrageous punishments.

He also reminds me of Mr. Bone from Doug. His obsession with the violin reminds me of Mr. Bone's love of yodeling.

Jerome Squalor reminds me of George McFly from Back to the Future. They're both spineless. They're both pushovers.

Carmelita Spats is like Nellie Oleson from Little House on the Prarie. They're both bullies.

Anybody here notice any ASOUE characters' similarities to other fictional characters?

[Dante]

I think a lot of characters in the series play into familiar archetypes. This applies across the series - Charles, Jerome, and Hector are basically the same character, for instance.

[Christmas Chief]

It'd be pretty difficult to create a new character completely original from what anyone has ever done, so naturally, I think there'd be at least a little overlap with characters from other places.

[blakegriplingph]

I think I find some similarities between Violet and Eleanor Lamb of Bioshock. Both are profilic inventors and are also highly intelligent.

[Emma “Emmz” Squalor]

Jerome Squalor reminds me of a few characters. The first time I read TEE, I kept thinking of Joe Gargery from Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. Then when I read V.C. Andrews' Butterfly in the Orphans Series, the character of Sanford Delorice reminded me greatly of Jerome. Both Joe and Sanford appear to be unable to stand up for themselves and instead allow their spouses to control them. Unlike Joe, however, I don't think Sanford would be so willing to jump when his wife says jump if he didn't feel so responsible for the car accident that physically crippled his wife.

[allegedly bryan]

Fiona reminds of Petra from "chasing vermeer", but this is mostly because brett helequist illustrated it, and drew them pretty similar.

[MyKindEditor]

Aww, Emma! Jermone and Joe, I like that. Although I do think Joe has more of a backbone, he's not afraid to stand up to Pip a little bit and try to accept their new social staus gap, but I see what you mean, they're both really sweet.

[colette]

Violet reminds me of Disney's Mulan because both are resourceful, quick thinking, friendly and not traditionally feminine.
Sunny is somewhat similiar to Arya Stark.
Kit and Dewey's love story reminds me of Lupin and Tonks' one.

[Gregor Anwhistle]

Sept 1, 2010 23:51:53 GMT -5 allegedly bryan said:

Fiona reminds of Petra from "chasing vermeer", but this is mostly because brett helequist illustrated it, and drew them pretty similar.

Wow me too! Until that one chapter illustration of Fiona pops up later in TGG, I was imagining her like Petra.

[Uncle Algernon]

Again a matter of archetypes, but Carmelita Spats is not unlike a child version of either Harry Potter's Dolores Umbridge, or The Wandering Inn's Magnolia Reinhart (who is, interestingly, a “good” character).

Veering into the obscure, there are similarities between Count Olaf and Gibassier, the antagonist of Alexandre Dumas's Mohicans of Paris, and particularly his film incarnation in the 1970's TV series adaptation. Both are, ultimately, thugs, yet with a surprisingly high degree of education that put them above their associates, whom they boss around; both are despicable people but their schemes are quite entertaining to read about or watch; and both often use improbable disguises as part of said schemes even though they have a very recognizable appearance beneath. (Gibassier's detective disguise felt a lot like a Count Olaf disguise, though more Gunther than Dupin.)


(Comparison of film-Gibassier's regular appearance, left, and his detective disguise, right. Note that, like Olaf and his unibrow, Gibassier
goes to great lengths to conceal his one-eyed-ness, in this case with smoked-glasses.)

To an extent this is because both are examples of the “grandfatherly absent-minded genius”, but Uncle Monty has shades of the Count de Champignac, trading snakes for mushrooms. (We're all fortunate, however, that the Count wasn't brutally murdered by a disguised villain.) With his non-book-compliant hairstyle, the Bill Conolly film version felt even more like a live-action version of Champignac. Moving away from Gibassier, there are several dangerous mushrooms which the Count experiments with which can only bring to mind the Medusoid Mycellium.

[R.]

This is a really obscure book, but I found a lot of ASOUE-esque characters in a book called Violet And The Pearl Of The Orient. The young antagonist resembles Carmelita, both in appearance and personality, and they both attend boarding schools. Her relationship with her mother reminds me a lot of Carmelita’s with Esmé, and her father, the main villain, has the title Count. The protagonist is of course named Violet.

[counto]

Violet and The Pearl of The Orient, that sounds very interesting to read.

[Glittery666]

Esme reminds me of Cruella de Vil, especially with her outfits
Carmelita Spats is like Angelica from Rugrats(I even imagine her with the same voice)
Sir and Charles' dynamic reminds me of Smithers and Mr Burns
Apollon from the r/nosleep story The Apartment Complex I Live In Has Some Scary Rules The Tenants Must Follow gives me Ishmael vibes

[Glittery666]

Mr Poe is kind of like the cab driver(can't remember if he has a name)from Corpse Bride. They're both fat men in top hats who cough a lot.

[carmelita0cheryl]

Quigley is like Archie Andrews