I hate hate HATE all those 2edgy 4me theories about kids shows. Like Angelica dreaming up the rugrats, or the ed, edd, and eddy children being ghosts, or literally anything that takes a lighthearted and fun kids show and has to turn it into some tragic take of rape or murder or misinformed mental illness.
So you know what? From now on I’m gonna do the exact opposite. Every cool grim-dark show is now because of a bunch of children. To get us started:
Game of Thrones: A middle-school DnD campaign with the most angry, vindictive DM who has promised to kill everyone’s player characters (and their family) by the end.
Batman: A moody teenager writes revenge fantasies into their diary after their bag went missing for an hour. Most of the bad guys are personifications of his teachers classmates (Joker is the class clown who they suspect stole the bag as a joke, Riddler is the math teacher etc.) and his stories swing from super grimdark to light and goofy based on his mood for that day.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica: a very morbid five year old tells her alarmed and slightly horrified father a story using sailor moon figurines and a very irritable cat as her actors
Phantom of the Opera: Theatre geek who ends up doing most of the back stage work because of his own image issues (self conscious of his cystic acne) writes revenge fantasy centered around his theatre department, high school crush and her ambiguously gay best friend
Blindspot: Teenage writer goes to great lengths to convince her conservative, Blacklist loving parents to let her get a tattoo.
Thoughts?