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Inquisitor Hein
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« #13 : 12-11-2013 12:26 »
« : 12-11-2013 12:30 »
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Aren't all the relationships concluded now that the series has ended?
In a renewal, the writers might still go back to the "Will you got out with me, Leela?" "No, Fry, I told you we are just friends" status. Yet, I doubt it. Recalling the "Meanwhile" events in a new episode seems too much of a keruffle. (Rebirth's "We were on a ship flying through a wormhole" theme was much leaner). So, to cut a long story short: A potential new season will probably keep Fry and Leela as lovers, and just cancel out the proposal. I'd always hoped to see Leela and Amy get together.
They did so in "Bender's Game", the greatest of the movies, and an overall series Top 10 episode.
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Tonya Rodriguez
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« #23 : 02-04-2014 00:44 »
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I ship Amy and Bender. They were a cute couple while they lasted.
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DannyJC13

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« #25 : 09-07-2014 20:36 »
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I've seen plenty of drawings and paintings and whatnot of Fry and Bender in a more-than-friends relationship on deviantArt. Nothing like rule 34, obviously. Here, have some examples.
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Gorky

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« #36 : 09-01-2020 14:59 »
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Thing is there are a lot of women and men let's be honest who would love to have a boyfriend like Fry, and would want to help him build up his confidence and talents and acheive his massive potential. A bit of time in the gym, some evening classes and some new clothes and bingo! The boy is someone you can easily take home to your mother.
Isn't this basically the premise of "Parasites Lost," except that Leela doesn't have to put any of the work into improving Fry because the worms did it for her? And doesn't the end of PL demonstrate that Fry is in fact capable of self-improvement, and Leela is the motivating factor for those efforts at self-improvement--even if she is not explicitly "helping" him to be "better"? It seems to me the show has planted its flag firmly on the side of "Fry needs to change, but it's not Leela's job to do it for him." I mean, I still think that's an inherently problematic view: ideally, Leela would love Fry for who he is.* But I also don't buy the idea that the role of the woman in a heterosexual partnership is to "fix" the man. (I also don't think that a man's worth is tied to extrinsic things like how he dresses or how jacked his body is or what have you--though obviously society tells us that a man's stock will go up if he conforms to specific standards of appearance, dress, financial stability, educational attainment, etc.) *I think that's ultimately where the show lands, in "Into the Wild Green Yonder": Leela accepts that "you're you, that's all I need to know" and subsequently declares her love for Fry. Honestly, ItWGY subverts the original run's argument that Fry needed to change to "make" Leela love him: it's only when he's doing something genuinely nice and caring for Leela without explicitly hoping she'll fall in love with him that she finally admits that, hey, she loves him.
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