User blog:Veenster7/Thoughts on Lola Loud



Here I am going share my thoughts on who is one of my favorite characters, and who I believe is the most underrated character on the show. This blog is inspired by DandyAndy1989's blog on how he thinks Lori is the most underrated. Check it out if you haven't already. I'm not going to go as in depth as he did in defending Lori as to me defending Lola, but I will try my best to keep it short and get all my points across.

We all know that Lola is the Princess in the family and is often portrayed as a brat. While on the topic of her being portrayed as a brat, lets talk about how she is most commonly viewed as the meanest sister. I think this may be seen as the case because of her first impressions. No Guts, No Glori is one of the first episodes in the series, and she had quite an impact after hitting Lincoln on the head with a golf club. That was the first physically painful thing we see happen to Lincoln, and it was done by this 6 year old pageant queen. It was harsh and uncalled for considering that she was protecting the door to Lori's room under the "boss' orders", when Lincoln was the boss. So it doesn't make sense why she didn't step aside and let him pass. Moving on to the next episode on the list, she plays a major role in Sound of Silence. In Sound of Silence, she pulls a prank on Lincoln along with the other sisters to teach him a lesson that he can't tone out his sisters or ignore them. A lot of fans hated this, but I'm actually going to disagree and say that Lincoln deserved it. He was using the Noise-B-Gone too much, and he did deserve some kind of punishment as a result. When he was in his room and his sisters went to ask him something, he could have taken the ear buds out to hear what his sisters wanted.

Now that the first few episodes regarding Lola are out of the way, we get to see a different side of her in Undie Pressure and A Tattler's Tale. After losing a bet, Lincoln can no longer read comics in his underwear, something that he loved doing very much. After Lola sees him upset over it, she decides to purchase him the victory undies he would have gotten had he won the bet. This was an incredible act of kindness by Lola. She didn't need to do anything, but she felt sorry for Lincoln and wanted to accept everyone's habits no matter how gross it may be. Overall it was a phenomenal episode that changed the way I saw Lola. Before this episode, we only had episodes like No Guts, No Glori and Sound of Silence to see her for. Another great episode for Lola is A Tattler's Tale. Here we see Lola blackmail her sisters because she wouldn't be allowed into the secrets club. While that sounds bad, we later find out it was so she could be close to her siblings. To make it up to them, she takes credit for all the bad things that her siblings did, which includes, Lincoln breaking Lynn Sr.'s disco ball trophy, Lori scratching up Vanzilla, and Lucy dying Rita's wedding dress black. I don't see how you view Lola as a monster after she just took the fall for all that.

Overall it seems like she has a good mix of being mean and nice. Which is great if you ask me. When a character is too nice, it often comes off as sappy and as a viewer it isn't entertaining. When a character's main characteristic is to be mean, there is going to be obvious problems with it. Lola has a good balance between these two personalities, which makes for good comedic moments.

As Jaylop91 has pointed out, she can also be viewed as an anti-hero at times. Lola has a good heart, she just goes about things the wrong way at times, like in A Tattler's Tale.

One of the biggest questions I ask myself for a character on The Loud House, is if the character is funny. That's kind of what it mostly boils down to when you are talking about a show that is supposed to be comedy driven. Lola's form of comedy can be a miss for some, but a hit for others. Moments like "you know what happens when you make Lola mad", or "where do you think you're going? More knight and horsey stories!" are just funny to me. Lola's type of comedy is a hit for me, but I do prefer Luan's puns (not all are good, but some are amazing).

So there you have it. Who is often seen as the meanest sister, really isn't that bad when you look at other things she has done. I could have continued on, but I feel like this blog is just dragging now and most readers probably won't even get this far before leaving a comment.