I actually feel bad for Mandark Imagine getting babysat by your crush who's like, the same age as you, who is infantilizing you and constantly deadnaming you along with your parents :(
This is hilarious. How could Mandark ever have a stable conversation with some one as clueless and insulting as Dee Dee? I guess no one could roast you better than the woman you love
How the hell is susan a unisex name? There's people named Akira, Max, Alex, Jordan (apparently), Charlie, Quinn, Jesse/Jessie, etc. but why did they think naming him Susan was a good idea? That's just asking for him to get bullied 😂
It's not. His parents are hippies who wanted to give him a feminine name despite knowing he's a guy(in the rightist definition and leftist definition). And you know darn well why they did that.
Here's a bit of Trivia for yah: In the first episode that Mandark was introduced, his first name was actually "Astro". I have no idea where this "Susan" s**t came from 😆
In the first episode Mandark was introduced he was originally referred to by the teacher as "Mister Astronomanov" which moreso implies that as his last name
@@doncomedia7927 which doesn't make sense since last time I checked, "Susan" isn't a boys name. If they wanted gender Neutral, why not pick a name like "Sam" or "Danny" or something like that.
It's not even that which bothers me it's the fact they specifically said they wanted a name that didn't have a set gender. Both parents have genderless names why did they name him susan 😭
I can highly tolerate Dee Dee being obnoxious as she destroys Dexter's laboratory, but humiliating Mandark is just ridiculous. Really ruins her character.
So for people confused… Every cartoon cartoon friday show (ppg’s, Ed Edd n Eddy etc) was had two parts… hand painted art phase and digital painted art phase… When this happend to Dexter’s lab the teams aparently changed somewhat and the writting was no different… as a result any sort of continuity in the Dexter’s lab universe lost itself… Hence why we never see Mandark’s sister in the digital painted era… Hence why we he had a name like Astronomanov and here it’s Susan… Hence why now he has Parents… Dexter was great all through all of it’s iterations but I have to say that the latter parts were a bit bad.
A lot of it might be because the creator the shows you mentioned (except Ed Edd n Eddy) left to work on other projects like FHFIF or Samurai Jack. It also does help the show runner for both the later half of PPG and Dexter’s Lab were the same guy and I think even some of the writers had to work on both shows, hence why they degraded in quality later down their run.
Digital Ed, Edd, N' Eddy had most of the same staff (due to the creator and stuff) so the quality mostly stayed as good and continuity consistent Digital Johnny Bravo brought back the creator after he was fired in season 1 but alot of other staff were different due to them moving on to other projects (Notably, Butch Hartman with the Fairly OddParents & Seth MacFarline with Family Guy) Continuity was mostly the same Cow & Chicken/I Am Weasle never got a 2000's Digital Revival for some reason Mike, Lou, & Og and Whatever Happened to Robot Jones also didn’t but those were handdrawn in the 2000's and quickly forgotten about
@@squishlez I wouldn't say everyone is "bad", I would just say they're human. Also did you know that Genndy Tartakovsky did not make seasons 3 and 4, which explains why everyone seems so much worse in those seasons?
@@squishlez let's be fair: Dexter is undeniably a good person but he has legitimately good reasons to be kind of a jerk. He's cocky, but underneath it all, he's actually a little insecure, and it shows. Maybe if Dee Dee treated Dexter well, wasn't so attached to him (in a rather touchy-feely way) and played nice with his things (or at least ask permission to see them), he would have probably turned out very different. Dee Dee has also treated him this way since she was a toddler and he was a baby, and it's to the point that he just starts crying from all the times he had to deal with Dee Dee's crap. In these later seasons, I'd say that Dexter is the most like his original, lovable self, which is saying something since there's no doubt that he's more of a jerk/butt-monkey in these seasons. As far as I'm concerned, Dexter seemed ignorant about Mandark's story (and Mandark seemed to shrug that off), and the only thing that essentially became the straw that broke the camel's back was Dexter laughing at Mandark. All of this seemed pretty out-of-character for Dexter, but then again, he was implied to be much younger at the time, so that can be excused. Also, from my POV, it just feels really petty for Mandark to become completely evil and show endless hate toward Dexter...all because Dexter laughed at him. Jeez. After seeing this, what Dexter did was practically nothing compared to what Dee Dee was doing. What is up with me. Why am I so deep in though.
nope, he kinda just existed. there was one funny joke in this episode where Dee Dee opens his closet, finds a shrine dedicated to her & completely ignores it but that's honestly it?
Not really. He wanted to use the babysitting as an excuse to ask out Dee Dee but as far as anything straight up evil then no, nothing directly in the episode justifies him getting humiliated like this.
Mandark should have gotten Dextor's parents from the Coupons for Craziness episode On second thought... that wouldn't make sense, because the parents might call Mandark by their sons name.
Looking at it from today's perspective, I don't feel comfortable seeing Mandark being humiliated like that. Being deadnamed many times by his parents and his crush is so dehumanizing.
@@anonymouslucario285 oh fudge brownies, I absolutely adore Dexter's Laboratory, but only for its first two seasons. The third and fourth seasons dropped in quality due to the fact that Genndy Tartakovsky didn't create them (Chris Savino did).
Was Astronomanov "Mandark" none existing backstory was that much of a big deal in the writing room? Because not every character needs a backstory or even a redo of character.
One of the worst in the whole show in my opinion. It’s so freaking annoying with how much certain scenes drag and the jokes just go nowhere at times. Though I will admit, it was satisfying to see Mandark get a kiss from DeeDee for the first time ever. Even if it was just a coincidence. Still though this one sucks 1/10
@@yanrokbowl28 ok but they couldn't have made him born as a female because that absolutely would not have been allowed by cartoon network at the time, giving him a feminine look & a female name is as close as they could really get
@@squishlez Genndy Tartanovsky intended Mandark to be male, and he didn't work on the last two seasons, so the whole "CN wouldn't have allowed him to be born with a female body" isn't a strong argument. That's like saying that "if a male is feminine, he must be homosexual or transgender", as if to imply that metrosexuals don't exist. I'm saying that homosexuals and transgender people exist, but don't just assume it's because they act like the opposite sex or because they're attracted to the same sex. Cisgender heterosexuals can be gender non-conforming too. It's just seen less often because of the stereotypical norms society has assigned them.
@@yanrokbowl28 name one character from a cartoon network show during that era that was outright said to be trans in the show. also regardless of what was intended, what mandark goes through is similar to what a trans person might go through which makes him heavily relatable to a trans audience. it doesn't matter if he's cannonly trans or whatever, if people find themselves represented by what he's gone through & wanna call him trans, more power to them
@@squishlez No one said they had to be openly trans. I'm aware of the metaphor. "It doesn't matter if he's canonically trans or not, if people find themselves represented by what he's gone through & wanna call him trans, more power to them." Michael Jackson was a black man, but suffered from vitiligo, and had to make his skin paler to cover up. Does that mean he became transracial or white? No. He referred to himself as a proud black man, and wanted to be seen as such, even if his skin was bleached. Mandark is obviously not transgender, but he can still relate to them. Calling him or making him "trans" however, is crossing a line between appreciation (understanding the background and respecting his differences) and appropriation (misusing a background and exploiting it for publicity points)
@RockoBoom-js1vq think this commenter might be from the UK since people in the UK usually refer to seasons as we call them as a compilation of episodes (If this even makes sense) in America and maybe in other countries as series.
@@squishlez No, no it's not. You're really out here making RU-vid videos about a little boy from a cartoon who's not even gay being trans too. I can't decide whether this is more gross or sad. Get a life.
It is. He very obviously wants to be called Mandark so calling him by his legal name and even refusing to call him Mandark is dehumanizing and just depressing in itself.
@@Roeseii It doesn't matter what you want to be called. I can want to be called Michael Jackson or Connor O'kief of some other shit. You're refusal to do so is not dehumanizing and I'll thank you not to water down that word putting into context like this where it doesn't belong. If being called your legal name by your mother is depressing to you, you need serious psychiatric help. A name is a name, getting hurt by someone "dead naming" you is the most childish, asinine, and irrelevant thing you can waste the human populations time thinking about. Grow up and get some thicker skin, stop making problems where they don't exist.
That is his legal name but he doesn't like it cuz that doesn't make him sound like a boy(which he always was, biologically and psychologically) despite his parents' views. So, as far as he is concerned, yes, he is being deadnamed.
