User blog:Zman12346/My personal best to worst sibling list (Part 2)

So I’d first of all like to thank all of you readers who’ve come back here for part 2 of this list which I’ve compiled. I would first like to sincerely apologize if the first part of my list disagreed with yours, but please understand that as a reviewer I am to a small extent entitled to my own opinions. I have also tried to give justifications as to why I liked some of the sisters more than others by citing episodes.

One thing I will say though is that a large part of how well I like each sister is based on how well they treat Lincoln. Since Lincoln is a mostly likeable person who tries his best to keep the peace in the family, I think it is fair to say that if he is doing nothing wrong in an episode it is unfair to punish him too badly.

Which would mean that in my opinion from part 1, Luan has the worst relationships with Lincoln since they rarely interact and the April fool episodes revolve around Lincoln and co begging Luan to not play hurtful pranks to no avail.

Lynn has a slightly better relationship with Lincoln but as shown in “No Such Luck” and “Lynner takes all” that means nothing if she loses and decides to be a bad sport about it. She also slams Lincoln into the ground a lot, or throws a ball at him when he is clearly not ready to catch it and gives him “Dutch ovens” a lot in episodes where she is not the central focus. Basically, her roughhousing can be very painful for Lincoln, almost like when Ronnie Anne gave him a black eye.

Lori’s relationship with Lincoln is improving greatly, but she still needs to do something about Ronnie Anne not treating Lincoln the best and start listening to Lincoln more often.

But anyhow. On with the list. By the way, the “Rank” system which a lot of you thought was bad because I used terms such as “Devil” and “Demon”. But “Devil” just means that compared to the other Louds, that the character in question is just less likeable, nothing else. It doesn’t mean that they are a bully or anything like that. And soon when I get to the nicer sisters I will start to use terms like “Priest” and “Angel”. The ranking system just makes the list a bit more fun for me to make, and for you to read. (Just think of it like those old cartoons where there would be an angel and a devil next to a person when they were trying to make a tough moral decision)

And yes, I was a bit tired when writing this and I did accidentally rank the characters worst to best despite the title, but most lists start with the least good and go from there (With number 1 being the most popular or best), so bear with me.

 7. Lisa Loud (AKA: Moondancer the pony) 

Rank: Friendly Satanist

Picture this. We’ve moved from that dark and unpleasant place under the ground into a much better and brighter place called “Earth”. The people in this new and higher up place with less lava and fire are still flawed but unlike those in the previous underground location we’ve now left well behind us, they mean much better and make a much more conscientious effort to make life better for all around them and find much more pleasure in seeing how their good deeds improve the lives of those they help. They also don’t have red eyes or horns, making them a lot morse pleasant to look at.

Standing closest to the hole that led out of the eldritch location that must not be named, we have Lisa Marie Loud.

A 4 years old genius that gives lectures in universities. But sadly in terms of a moral compass and empathy still only 4 years old.

Lisa is a character I don’t feel too much for either way. Easily forgettable and for the most part easy to ignore. She doesn’t show up too often and when she does, isn’t quite as bad as Luan and Lynn but still not very friendly.

In “Making the Grade” she did at least try to adjust her attitude to let Lincoln be more popular and to stop his “friends” from insulting him anymore, and I will say that I like how Lisa made it clear that her intent was to stop Lincoln from being bullied. I like this far more than when Ronnie Anne threw food at Lincoln at the end of “Save the Date” without telling him beforehand that this was only an act first.

Her mistake was that she let the popularity get to her head. She was quite wrapped up in her newfound popularity as well as her goal of remaining popular so that Lincoln could continue to be treated well at school, and let that attitude carry forward to her home and family life so that she forgot how much her cleverness and talents were needed.

Though I will say that the dad should be able to at least write down a copy for his recipes by now if he still can’t remember it, and the mom could have just looked up a timetable to see when Pop-Pop would arrive.

Another thing about “Making the grade” which I really liked (Despite the episode being unpopular to most people) is how Lincoln’s so called friends learned the hard way how badly their insults had impacted not just those around them but themselves when they came down with nasty diseases that the changed Lisa would not be able to assist them with.

Like “Vantastic Voyage” the writers could have tried to reach a happy medium (In the former episode Mr Loud could have kept his new car but let his family ride with him in it, and in this episode Lisa could be cool but still continue being clever as well), but I still find “Making the Grade” to establish Lisa as a passable sibling who does care a bit about Lincoln and how he’s an outcast.

But other episodes beside this one don’t showcase her in a very positive light usually (With the exception of possibly “Potty mouth” where she cared about Lily enough to pretend to be her so that Lily would still be allowed to go to the day care as well as “Friend and Faux” which I loved because Lisa actually learns a moral in that one) Which is logical considering Lisa is supposed to be a mad scientist.

She tried to forcefully change her siblings opinions of snowy days in the episode “Snow Bored” just so she could go back to school and save brain power. The two problems here being that she also ruined the fun of snow for everyone in Royal Woods (at least) and not just herself. The second problem being that she could still study even when not in school. Heck in university a lot of the study we have to do is self-study which we must do in our free time without any supervision whatsoever. If Lisa really wanted to study that bad she could just go study herself and let her siblings enjoy their day in the snow. Also Lisa goes to Kindergarten anyway, so whatever they could teach her couldn’t possibly complex enough for a great mind like her to enjoy anyway.

Lisa doesn’t show up often in other episodes but most of the time she isn’t doing anything too kind. In “Garage Banned” it was revealed Lisa wanted to harvest Lincoln’s organs without his permission and that she had already taken away his appendix according to Lori (Probably without his permission either from how she said it and please note the Appendix is incredibly important to the body)

She also sees a need to pour highly toxic chemicals into a public pool full of innocent people as shown in “Suite and Sour” and “Linc or Swim”. I will give her credit that she was only trying to clean the pool but I still think she should have either used less dangerous chemicals or asked the permission of the people in the pool in the first place. As I said, a mad scientist especially a very young one doesn’t have much moral compass yet.

And then in “No Such Luck” even someone as “Clever” as her failed to realize that Lincoln was not in fact bad luck. Even worse than that was how Lisa failed to see how she and her sisters were overworking Lincoln with too much for the poor boy to handle, and let his sisters and herself give him even more tasks to do for them with only started the entire conflict of the episode in the first. She must not be as clever as she claims, or maybe she just lacks common sense.

All in all, episodes like the aforementioned “Friend in Faux” and even “Making the Grade” do show that Lisa is not too bad of a person even if she does take poop studies and want to harvest all the organs of her siblings without their consent. And a lot of her experiments are good for the world and do involve her to take a lot of risk on herself, so I respect that.

I guess having to study so hard to become so knowledgeable has its price in that you lose out on the chance to learn social cues and common sense. She’s still not the sister I would like to have as my sister though, and certainly not the first choice for Lincoln when he needs to ask for help or find someone to play with him for a bit.

If you are patient enough to read part one of this list, you will find that Lori is AKA: Starlight Glimmer. Make of that what you will.

 6.Lola Loud  (AKA: Princess Peach of the mushroom Kingdom) 

Rank: Neutral/Balanced

We’ve walked much further away from that awful pit that led to that awful place underground that must not be named, and the air begins to feel lighter, fresher and much cooler.

We’ve now made it to the bottom of a tall stone staircase which if you ascend it, will take you to a big and beautiful church atop a hill.

Let me take a little while to stress that the rankings are not literal, just roughly how good I believe a Loud sibling is compared with the others. “Devil” from part 1 was not meant to be an insult at all, simply that Luan was less friendly or trustworthy when compared to the other Loud children and no one else because other characters don’t factor in this review.

Similarly, “Satanist” simply means near the bottom. It doesn’t mean the person with said ranking is a monster or not a nice person in general.

So to get an idea of how nice or mean Lola Loud is, picture her standing a very long way from the deep pit in the ground but standing at the very bottom of the staircase which would lead to the church on top of the hill. The air is not nearly as boiling or uncomfortable as it would be if we stood nearer to that hole and easily breathable but still a tiny bit acrid.

Lola Loud is as her rank implies, right in the middle. The kind of person who in cartoons would almost always have an angel and a devil standing beside her arguing nonstop whenever she is asked a question or asked to do something.

She’s certainly nowhere near as bad Luan who finds it fine to pour bleach onto her siblings because she finds it to be funny (“Fool’s Paradise”). She also doesn’t nearly as overboard when she doesn’t win something minor like Lynn and doesn’t rub her victories in other’s faces as badly.

In “Lynner takes all” Lynn wrote loser onto everyone’s head and then ripped everyone’s homework to make confetti. She also said “Yes, first to apologize” when she finally said sorry making the apology considerably weaker.

But onto Lola. I don’t think Lola is quite the spoiled and scary brat that the wiki or the fans say she is. There are only three episodes I can think of when she was anywhere near as bad as that. Those episodes are “Get the Message” and “Toads and Tiara’s” and “A tattler’s tale” which are all focused on Lola.

In the first of those (Get the message) it turned out at the end that none of the frightening things the other sisters claimed she did to them when she was upset were actually real. She just made those up. So even though Lola isn’t the nicest person in that episode, it did clearly show that there were some lines she would not cross.

Then in “Toad’s and Tiara’s” she also wasn’t that bad either. She didn’t fly out in a rage at Lincoln even when she tripped when he was helping her practise for the pageant, and didn’t blame him either (If the show wanted to show how bad she was, she would have blamed Lincoln for making her trip over and injure herself). She also didn’t force him to wait on her while she recovered and allowed him to leave and have free time to himself while she took some rest.

This is a stark contrast to “No Such Luck” when none of Lincoln’s sisters allowed him to take any rest or miss any of their events while giving nothing back to him in return.

If they wanted to make Lola seem worse, they could easily have her forcing Lincoln to bring her snacks, give her a massage and sing her a song etc while she recovered from her injuries. They could have her throw a huge and furious tantrum that Lincoln had ruined her entire beauty career by making her miss this one contest. But Lola’s exact words in this episode were "There will be other pageants, you know." As opposed to Lynn who believed that even a single loss meant her life was essentially over.

She was only enraged at all when she found that her twin Lana was on stage doing very badly. By then though Lola’s anger was somewhat justified as Lincoln took Lana to the contest without her permission, and such an act could potentially have permanently tarnished her reputation through no fault of her own (Since she wasn’t actually the one on stage. Her twin was). Lola was also prepared to let Lincoln keep his copy of the prize ticket instead of demanding that Lincoln hand it over for doing something so selfish without her consent. Granted Lana had won the pageant by then, but its still a small kind gesture worth noting. She could easily have taken it away from him as a punishment. She also looked at the stage when Lincoln begged her to, instead of ignoring him and simply lashing out at him right away. If she hadn’t done this, she’d never have found that Lana was actually winning before her anger consumed her completely.

Then in “a Tattler’s Tale”, she did quickly learn her lesson by the end and the ending made that extremely clear. Even more so by how she even confessed her own mistakes and took a punishment just to show she was now completely changed. Lola had to bite a bullet in this episode while Lynn got almost no consequences in “Lynner Takes all” or “No Such Luck” besides having to say sorry. And saying sorry in real life rarely works.

Luan did not even apologize in the end of “Fool’s Paradise” or “April Fool’s rules” despite what she did being far worse than tattling (Which In very special circumstances is necessary while causing grievous body harm by dumping bleach and pies that others are allergic to, are almost never justified). And even by the time she did apologise in “Fool me twice” she had made the same mistake twice without correcting herself. Three times if you count this episode as well.

Episodes after “A Tattler’s tale” show her fairly close and on good standings with the rest of her family showing that taking a few punishments was just a small price to pay if it meant receiving forgiveness at long last and reuniting with those Lola Loved.

There are many good and heart-warming moments that Lola provides for me in the show despite not being among the kinder siblings. -In “Read aloud” she only didn’t read because she couldn’t, and made a genuine effort to overcome her shortcomings when Lincoln reasoned with her to. She also cooked everyone else a delicious pizza to show that her gratitude in them helping her learn a new skill (Reading) and that her new skill would be put to good use.

-In “Undie Pressure” even when Lincoln failed to win the contest of staying away from bad habits (Lily was the one who actually won), Lola still allowed him to keep doing his annoying habit after realizing that it would be cruel to ask any one of the siblings to give up their habits which they could not stay away from for long either. She even gave Lincoln a fresh pair of underwear as an apology gift when he did not even win the contest and the fresh pair of underwear would not have been a prize even if he actually won (Which he didn’t).

-In “Patching things up” she decided that being in the girl scouts wasn’t worth it if her twin Lana couldn’t come with her. This honestly shows that she does care for her twin even if they do spend a lot of their screen time arguing and disagreeing. How nice.

-In “out of the picture” she seemed more grateful than she needed to be when Lincoln decided to improve her photo instead of his own. The end scene where she thanks her brother profusely is a great scene.

-In “No Place like Home school”  Lola was actually willing to go out of her way to warn her siblings of the dangers of home school. When they refused to take her advice, she actually went even further out of her way to help them finish their assignments and just like in “A Tattler’s tale” she was prepared to have her own comfort and privileges revoked to please her siblings, who were somewhat in the wrong in this episode by refusing to take her helpful suggestion seriously and decided to laze about instead (Though I will also admit that as a university student who has many tests coming up, this episode is very relatable for me and I did still sympathize with the other Louds apart from Lola). The other siblings mutual affection for Lola were showcased well in this masterful episode too when they decided to go back to school again so that Lola could keep her home-school privileges after realizing how wrong it would be for it to be the other way around.

All in all it while Lola still does have her violent outbursts and somewhat spoiled moments of wanting everything her way, its also true that she is quickly learning from her mistakes and improving and quick to admit she has a problem.

Not admitting that they have a problem is a major flaw of many alcoholics, drug addicts and other bad people. Its also a problem for the sisters at the bottom of this list.

And with a bit of work and a few more sacrifices, Lola can become a truly good person in later life with both the beauty and kindness a true princess should be heir to. She’s only six while Lori is already seventeen so her chances look quite good. She just needs more episodes like the good ones I mentioned here and she can easily catch up to the better siblings.

Her earnest actions since her somewhat dubious first impression on the show have teleported her far away from the deep hot pit in the ground where some of the Louds have already fallen down. But she’s still not quite ready yet to climb the long and slippery staircase which will take her to that church on top of the hill she now stands in front of.

These two characters took far longer to analyse than the previous ones on the list did so I’m going to leave this list here. I wanted to make my arguments at least use source material from the show and not seem like a complete raving idiot or a troll.

And please once again, I will not judge you if you dislike my opinion and you can agree with my opinion or not as you like and I would still want to be your friend. I came to share my view, not to bash the views of others. Especially for this show I love so much.

But once again thank you for reading my hard work and any comments would be greatly appreciated as I greatly enjoy hearing your own views.

And join me next time when I’ve once again done my analysis and found enough time and energy. Then we shall find out just which Loud siblings are inside the beautiful church on top of that hill, Picture also as you leave this analysis, an even taller mountain next to and behind the hill with the church. And on that mountain picture a large and colourful cathedral with big stained glass windows and everything, many times the size of the humble and rundown church whose own windows are very cracked from years of disrepair made worse by the fact the small church was made from very cheap and low quality material in stark contrast to the mountain cathedral which was constructed of the finest that money could buy.

To climb up the stone steps to go up the hill to get to the church was already hard work for the Louds who wanted to take that extra step to become better people, but just which of them felt that even reaching the church on the hill wasn’t enough and continued to try and reform themselves more by climbing the even more tall, slippery and dangerous mountain leading to that big shiny cathedral?

Find out in part 3, coming soon to a Loud House Wiki near you.