>Le three dimensional characters.
This is a complete and utter meme. Adding pages worth of backstory and tragedy does not mean a character is well-written. Look at Spider-Man. He's not particularly deep, beyond making a tragic mistake. He's just a normal guy trying to make it through life and do the best he can do. His strength as a character comes from his ability to rise up and do the right thing. His steadfastness to being a hero isn't realistic, but he's well written regardless because it's his struggle to do good despite all that happens to him is the selling point of the character, not how realistic he is.
alan moore is a repressed homosexual
Do you have anything worthwhile to say?
>three dimensional means pages of irrelevant backstory
It's don't
This the dumbest thread I read, ty op.
>No argument
It depends. In comics I would tend to a agree with you because of form really being for simple archetypes and popular ideas. Like puppet theatre.
if you think depth=backstory, then you might just be too stupid to have reading as a hobby
Then what is depth to a character?
Contradictory qualities. A character that has strong impulses that move at cross purposes has to choose between them and these choices themselves add depth to the character throughout the story.
A character doesn't need contradictory qualities to be deep
See: Jesus Christ
>Fully human
>Fully divine
That is not depth.
>Contradictory qualities.
Too many times this just means a painfully inconsistent character.
It's personality. What does a character want? Can you imagine how a character will act in a situation? Can you guess what shows they would like? The character needs to be able to exist without context. So, if you want to get ironic with it, depth=no backstory.
Alan Moore should not by any means be considered a serious artist
>Spider-Man
>>>co
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>everything must be grey and vague and muddled
>cause that's realistic
Moore's novels have clear good and bad. It's just that he writes anti-heroes in the stories.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C8h4CjwmAOA
>Hurr durr superpowers are useless! Super speed just makes you a super wagie!