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Frozer is a Heaping Pile of Garbage

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Hi. I made another essay.

You can alternately call it, ‘How a single episode somehow encompasses everything that’s narratively disturbing about this show.’

But if you’re feeling frisky, feel free to call it, ‘How a show about a girl for young girls thinks that said girl is the Worst and needs to be Better. Or Else.’

I’m done joking. Let’s get (semi) serious.

If you watch ML casually or say, with a bit of a bias towards a certain blond character, it might be easy to miss the issues I often talk about. They tend to center around Marinette and her treatment in the show, but it’s hard not to always talk about that when it has a tendency to be a certain way with her. I’m going to focus on just one of those ways for right now, but just know ahead of time that there are a multitude of issues with how the writers treat her, such as her lack of major plot involvement, her parents being one dimensional and barely involved in her life, and how the writers praised her for being a biracial french/chinese heroine yet seem to have no interest in actually showing that on screen.

Lately I’m finding that something stands out exceedingly, and the more I think it over the more unnerved I get. Marinette is a nice girl, a hero who other little girls are suppose to look up to. She should be flawed but she should overcome those flaws and for the most part be a positive force in people’s lives, both in and out of the show. And she is, but to a downright punishable degree. This isn’t to say she’s very flawed, because she’s not. That’s not the problem. Overall she’s a sweet, strong character who has some problems with emotional stability. I’d call it anxiety if I knew the writers of the show cared to really delve into her problems all that much, but I digress. It’s not that she’s flawed at times that’s the issue, it’s how she’s expected to make up for those flaws with either apologies, sacrifices, or kicking herself when she’s already down, and being the only character (with a small exception(1)) in the show who is expected to repent at all, let alone to this degree of punishment.

It stands out even more when we put her mistakes next to the deuteragonist, Adrien, and compare how they’re both expected to handle them. To put it bluntly, Adrien isn’t expected to handle them. Adrien can be moody, say something rude, do something dishonest, and the end of the episode will wind up favoring him with sympathy instead of even so much as suggesting that he was ever in the wrong and needs to fix something. Before I really tackle Frozer, let’s look at Copycat and Volpina, episodes where Adrien and Marinette respectively get jealous and act out of line, causing an akumatization.

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