ok well this came up in #fc the other day: can you really LOVE a cartoon character?? I mean not being your favourite charcter or liking it, i mean LOVE.
I say no, yeah sure I like Amy a lot but for what it is: a cartoon!

vote!

I say no, but you never know, stranger things have happened.

Usually with some kind of "idiot" involved.

Err...No.

Although Billy West mentions that he fancies Amy on one or two of the commentaries.

*sarcasm*

No you can’t love a cartoon character but you can fantasise about it.

You can love a cartoon character about as much as you love a really nice pie.  In fact, the pie can give you more pleasure.

If you imagine how the person would be in "real" life, with real looks, real personlaity and all, then I think it is very possible to be more than fascinated by voiced, animated ink on paper. "Wow, if only a person such as her existed...". You know what I mean, right? I've often wished that I'd meet a sarcastic, cynical, intelligent, geeky, thrift/secondhand-store-wardrobe girl with glasses. But to truly fall in love would be quite strange indeed.

Are we talking, true lasting passionate love, or I-can't-believe-I-dreamed-that-I-was-having-sex-with-her love?

A person like Bender in real life, I'd have to meet!!

 

Originally posted by Pitt Clemens:
Are we talking, true lasting passionate love, or I-can't-believe-I-dreamed-that-I-was-having-sex-with-her love?

Stop watching Evangelion before going to bed, Pitt.

I think, theoretically, it's possible to fall in love with a fictional character. Because the character only exists on the page and in your mind, it's possible to shape their personality into exactly how you want it. A "real" person's personality isn't so malable. There are natural discrepencies between what you imagine they are and what they really are. However, a fictional character acts exactly how you want them to.  I don't think it's unnatural or anything.  I mean, it's different, but as long as the person keeps their emotions in check, it should be okay.

While no one is willing to admit it, I'm sure that numerous people have had "crushes" on characters from TV, movies, animation, etc. Not just crushes on the actor/actress, but on the actually character. And I think it's funny that no one here will admit to loving a cartoon character.  I'm pretty damn sure that many of you just won't admit your ink-and-paper love. (like Margie     )

 

Originally posted by Pikka Bird:
If you imagine how the person would be in "real" life, with real looks, real personlaity and all, then I think it is very possible to be more than fascinated by voiced, animated ink on paper. "Wow, if only a person such as her existed...". You know what I mean, right? I've often wished that I'd meet a sarcastic, cynical, intelligent, geeky, thrift/secondhand-store-wardrobe girl with glasses. But to truly fall in love would be quite strange indeed.

well, that couldnt be, because her or his personality is made up by a bunch of writers, It just doesnt exist as of itself.

 

Originally posted by SpacemanSpiff:
No. It contradicts major components of what would specify love (at least if you are talking about the love between two persons, not, as Melllvar already mentioned, the "love" for a thing). The psychological part is pretty much missing already, since there is no reply in, say, a conversation, and the chemistry isn't there at all.

Also, it's pretty fucking sad.

There are people though for whom their love is entirely one sided in that they love someone, but said person doesn't respond with love. In this case is the loving person not really in love, or are they just deluding themselves that the other person really feels the same way about them.

It doesn't take a huge step from this possibility to someone falling in love with a cartoon character. Deluding yourself into thinking that if you were to meet you would be perfect for each other the same way that people do to celebrities they don't meet.

It's one thing if you want to stare, but I'm going to have to stop you when you ejaculate all over the TV.

 

Originally posted by evan:
I'm pretty damn sure that many of you just won't admit your ink-and-paper love. (like Margie      )

oh yeah ink and paper..so sexy... sometimes i just take few sheets of paper, put them in the ink and then hump them.
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Originally posted by TheLampIncident:
It's one thing if you want to stare, but I'm going to have to stop you when you ejaculate all over the TV.

 

Couldn't have put it better myself!

Probably just going over what other people have said already and probably chewing it up then vomiting it out in one large pool of incoherient and badly spelt mess, but anyway:

I think the highest degree of "love" anyone can have for a ficticous character, whether in a live action show or film, an animated character or even a character in a book, is purely what everyone else would call infatuation. Proper love is I won't bore you with my definition of Proper Love, but the way I see it, being some sad git who could be accused of loving cartoon characters myself, the fact that the character is ink on paper is absolutely irrelevant (as in the character could be from any type of media) - it is the presented personality or our own personification of them that we fall for. In my mind it is exactly the same as...for example a pretty girl you see as you drive by her on the bus everyday. Over time you start to feel emotions over her, you feel attracted to her, since it's only natural, but, you never know her, you never know what she does and you never gonna reach her. So you just fall in love with your personification of her. It's exactly the same as a character created by a bunch of writers because you are creating a personification of her, you are writing your own imagination. But its all just infactuation. And I think thus there is nothing wrong with it...as long as you recognise it's just infactuation and have eyes for someone who you can reach as it were, and then fall into a Proper Love relationship with.   
 

 

Originally posted by Pitt Clemens:
Withdaw the statemnet

move along.

...but I remember what you posted. How much is my silence worth? (Please don't say "a hitman"- that'd suck)

Zed said it best. You can be infautated with a character, but not in love.

Love is way too strong a word. There is some security in escaping into a world of characters (tv shows, books or video games) Though nothing you do or say could possibly change how they feel, what they do...which is probably why it's impossible. Love needs free will as far as I'm concerned

 

Originally posted by Margarita:
 oh yeah ink and paper..so sexy... sometimes i just take few sheets of paper, put them in the ink and then hump them.
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Me thinks thou doth protest too much. Most people who are very ademant about not liking something secretly do like that same thing.  Like many homophobes are closeted homosexuals.  Margie    Fry.

And yes, I am making baseless accusations. Cuz I find it funny.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Lara Croft yet....I can't have been the only fanboy with a crush on her....
I'm talking before the movies came out and she was just a character in a video game....I wouldn't say I loved her back then, but I was quite obsessed and wishing to meet a girl like her....
Anybody who can take out a T-Rex with a pair of pistols gets my respect....

 

Originally posted by Pikka Bird:
If you imagine how the person would be in "real" life, with real looks, real personlaity and all, then I think it is very possible to be more than fascinated by voiced, animated ink on paper. "Wow, if only a person such as her existed...". You know what I mean, right? I've often wished that I'd meet a sarcastic, cynical, intelligent, geeky, thrift/secondhand-store-wardrobe girl with glasses. But to truly fall in love would be quite strange indeed.

Meeting Daria would be the best thing ever....