No. 10: Satellite Characters
On an island, inside a small yellow house, Master Roshi was sitting on a red chair, "Hey Turtle! I need some beer!"
A brown turtle came in with a can on his shell, "Here you are, Master Roshi."
Roshi took the can with a smile, "Thanks Turtle."
-An amount of time I don't care to establish later-
Roshi was staring down a young Bulma, "Alright! If you want the Dragon Ball, you need to show me your panties!"
Turtle gasped upon hearing this, "Master Roshi, you shameless pervert!"
Roshi glared at him, "Quiet Turtle."
-Sometime Someplace Later-
Roshi was lying on the ground with a dagger in his stomach. Ganos was holding his hand with tears in his eyes, "C'mon, old man. Don't die."
Roshi held his hand with a smile, "Don't say that. Ya know it's my time. I've lived it good."
The old man's eyes started to close as life left his body with Ganos sobbing loudly.
-Some other place-
Turtle started to fade, "The definition of my existence has vanished."
With the meaning of his existence gone, Turtle began to fade into nothingness.
It's really short, doesn't make a lot of sense, and you probably wanted me to skip to the critique part of the chapter. THAT'S HOW YOU KNOW IT'S A PARODY SHORT BY ME!
Satelite Characters: A character whose entire existence revolves around another character's existence.
This will be very short as there is not much to talk about, so forgive me on that.
This trope bothers me because when a characters existence is basically around only 'oh X.' 'X, my love, you are my existence-' enough already! Get out of that one person space, meet people! Go on the internet and start writing fanfiction if ya have to.
Anyways. What actually bothers me, and to be fair this doesn't really bother me that much, that the character in question is usually given a design to make them more memorable or to stand out. Unfortunately, this usually is overshadowed by their minimal role in the story and the fact they only interact with one character.
The only time this is really jarring is when it's a bad guy's right hand. Like, they give them this so-so design to make them stand out, but all that does is make it more jarring when their involvement in the story amount to just knowing this guy.
Usually they'll have this character or small group of characters only be shown with this character. They'll either be a gang with the leader or an army with the leader.
It's only number 10 because it really doesn't bother me or effect my enjoyment of the story, unlike the other entries on this list.
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