Flanderization is the process through which a fictional character's essential traits are oversimplified and exaggerated over a serial work. The term Flanderization was coined by TV Tropes in reference to Ned Flanders of The Simpsons, who was increasingly caricatured over the show's run from a friendly and good-hearted Christian neighbor, among other characteristics, into a dogmatic, evangelical "Bible-thumper".
Flanderization is the process through which a fictional character's essential traits are oversimplified and exaggerated over a serial work. The term Flanderization was coined by TV Tropes in reference to Ned Flanders of The Simpsons, who was increasingly caricatured over the show's run from a friendly and good-hearted Christian neighbor, among other characteristics, into a dogmatic, evangelical "Bible-thumper".
Source: Wikipedia "Flanderization" · CC BY-SA 4.0
Share this article: X · Bluesky