User blog:Zman12346/Why cant a character be both kind and clever.

It always seems that a character on this show is either kind or clever but never both. (Unless maybe you count Lincoln, but I know a lot of you don't like Lincoln the same way I do and that's completely fine.)

Leni would be an obvious example of a character who is "Kind" but not clever. She makes very basic mistakes that create more problems than they solve so in this situation, her kind and friendly nature doesn't help make her much of an attractive character for me at least.

Then we have Lisa, a character who is clever but not kind. Sure she's a genius and all that but she does a lot of not very nice things. For instance: In the episode "Suite and sour" she poured a very toxic chemical into the swimming pool just to "Sanitize it". In "Snow bored" she ruined the fun of the snowy days for her siblings and probably everyone else in Royal woods just so she could save a very small amount of brain power, In "Garage banned" one running gag involved Lisa trying to take away Lincoln's organs against his permission. In "Friend or Faux" while she did learn a good lesson at the end. She was prepared to simply ditch her new friend now that her grade had been raised (and part of me thinks that if the teacher said that Lisa could ditch her new friend and still keep her high grade, Lisa would not have gone back for her friend). In most other episodes she is very insulting towards her siblings and unwilling to accept when any of them might be right when she is wrong.

As another example, there is Lori. Who is also clever but not friendly, empathetic or kind. In "Driving miss hazy" when she found out that Leni learning to drive would mean her siblings stopped doing favours for her (Very difficult and unpleasant ones mind you), she potentially endangered Leni's life. Leni having a car accident could have killed her.

In "Save the date" even if Lincoln was somewhat in the wrong, she was still far too quick to take Ronnie Anne's side over his.

In "A fair to remember" she dragged an unconscious Clyde to the fair with her just to make Bobby jealous again. She also couldn't stand Bobby having fun with Lincoln despite how happy the two of them were.

"No Guts, No Lori". She did restore the house to order at the end, but the beginning showed that she was never very nice to her siblings when she babysat them. (Which is why Lincoln encouraged a revolt in the first place against her)

Then there would be Bobby. Sure he is supposedly a nice and kind guy, but he also suffers from the same problems as Leni in that he unknowingly causes more problems than he solves and takes too long to realize that his actions are making the situation worse and not better. I would reference "Loudest mission" as the episode that best demonstrates this since Lori had cried for a long time before he made any effort to comfort her and to stop talking about his bodega (Which was clearly not making his girlfriend any happier).

A character can have flaws. I'm not asking for the character's to be perfect. But Twilight Sparkle from Mlp proves that a character can be relatable and flawed while being both clever and kind There's also Kim Possible. And Naruto (he might not look so clever, but his clever battle strategies never fail him when its important and he's very determined). Possible even L from death note can be considered clever and kind.

A character who is only kind but not clever wants to help in a situation but only ends up making it worse. While a character who is clever but not kind, could help in the situation but is selfish and refuses to.

A clever but not kind character becomes something like "The Joker" or "Dr Eggman" or "Light Yagami" (Death note) or any other generic mad scientist bent on conquering the world

A kind but not clever character becomes "Ned Flanders" or "Patrick Star" as the show's ideas run out.

If the show wants to show me that a lot of the characters are anything but strawmen for Lincoln (Who proves that you can be both clever and kind since he's usually the one who comes up with ideas to get his family out of their problems) then why can't other characters be both clever and kind at the same time. We need to prove that a character can do clever things and do well in school without sacrificing their morals.

So what do you guys think?

Oh and by the way, have any of you seen this great movie called "My neighbor Totoro".

Its amazing.

The older sister is like a combination of the five older Loud sisters and the Younger sister is like a combination of the five younger Loud sisters.

Its available in both japanes and English and well worth a good watch.