Atticus Flinch: More Beloved Fictional Characters Ruined

Who’d have guessed Harper Lee would get George Lucas syndrome?

Both Lee and Lucas wrote stories that became iconic and followed them up with something…else. I haven’t read Go Set a Watchmen, Lee’s sequel To Kill A Mockingbird follow-up yet, but have heard about the surprise and dismay over the racism of the character Atticus Finch, whose defense of a black man in the depression-era South in Mockingbird made him a cultural hero.

Well, fictional people change.

You think you know a person and boom, you're wrong. Just like in real life, people change on you. Most have something in their past they’d like to remain murky. Why should characters be any different?

And if we're going to ding some halos, why stop with Atticus? 

These are a few beloved characters my co-writer Susan Moynihan and I decided to give questionable pasts of their own. Artists, feel free to make your own book covers and movie posters of these, just link to this and send them to me at langley.liz@gmail.com.

(For the record we love all these characters and this falls under the banner of ‘satire’).

Snow White and the Seven DUIs 
It’s not just her stepmother that has her in hiding, it’s the arrest warrants.
  
Anne of Green Goebbels
An 11-year-old orphan girl is adopted by a politician in 1930s Germany.
  
Jiminy Crackhead
A small-town cricket follows his friend to the big city and finds something more lasting than love: addiction.

It's the Great Leader, Charlie Brown!
When The Peanuts visit North Korea they FILE NOT FOUND. THE GREAT LEADER IS GREAT.

My Little Porny
Welcome to a Dream Valley, just over from The Valley in Los Angeles, where colorful ponies swap "cutie marks" and horse around with their middle-aged male admirers.

Willie Wonka and the 200 Counts of Human Trafficking
The Oompa Loompas lawyer up.

The Poppin' Fresh Killings
He got poked in the tummy one too many times…and the giggling ended.

Jem and the Hallucinogens
A small-town girl starts a rock band and catapults to super-stardom — in her mind, thanks to a killer tab of acid.

Harry Potter and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Doping Scandal
How did this skinny kid get so great at a really hard sport? “Magic.”

George Bailey: It's a Wonderful Life Sentence
Beleagured small town banker kills a local drunk named Clarence in a bar fight, and learns how life goes on without him while he’s in prison.

Thanks for the photoshop job, Doug Rhodehamel!

 (I wrote and posted this on another blog of mine a couple of weeks ago but I'm condensing to a single blog and importing this. Cuz I love this)

Comments

  1. UnknownJune 19, 2016 at 9:09 AM

    I've always thought that would be true of Willy Wonka were he not a fictional character! Love the list!!!

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