Cartoon Network in the 1990s had a gallery of effeminate devil characters.

Posted by FractalGeometric356@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 10 comments

I get that these characters are all meant to be ironic depictions of effeminate villain stereotypes, but I wonder how many kids just saw these characters and absorbed the stereotypes without the irony.

(1. KATZ from *Courage the Cowardly Dog)

(2. HIM from The Powerpuff Girls)

(3. RED GUY from Cow and Chicken and I am Weasel)

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w0rsh1pm3owo@reddit

[3] was it really ironic depictions? IDK about that. it feels more like they just effeminate the villains because "queer is bad, mmkay"

sissy villains are literally a trope. it's about as ironic as Alanis singing about her irony.

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BoboliBurt@reddit

Mid to late 1990s pop culture and the entire cultural zeitgeist was a homophobic and misogynist backlash- and often weirdly fixated on crotches?

Thats the first I’ve heard of this!

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LoudAd1396@reddit

With HIM it never felt like the gay trope was played for laughs. It was just that that was the evil stereotype they went with. There were way more "you're the ultimate evil, and your plan is to kick a puppy?!" Than "nice fishnets. Does the toxic avenger know you stole his tutu?"

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