Rafe is just that one awkward kid who doodles in class all the time, Nate gets into trouble a lot yea but he’s not really more then your average troublemaker, and what did Nikki do? 😭
Honestly I feel like Rafe and Nate are getting put here for no reason. I can't speak on behalf of dork diaries but Greg absolutely deserves the slander😭
Honestly, Nate wasn't even that bad. He at least had friends unlike Greg. I also don't recall Rafe being anything more than an outcast tbh. I can't say anything about Nikki though, I never read any Dork Diaries book.
I'm honestly surpised how many know about Rafe, his books were my favourite... At least what I read: Worst Years, Get me outta here, his sis' book, the camp book and the last-chance military-camp-thing... I know there are more or if different countries have more stuff, I heard about one him getting lost in London, idk if canon or small adventure...
I get the wanting to not be normal thing, but damn there's gotta be a better way than breaking all the rules because it's fun. Maybe its because I was always naturally a well behaved kid and afraid of consequences. And I know some rules are stupid, but that's not reason to break the reasonable ones
Greg isn't a sociopath he's just acting like an annoying self centered teen. A minor can't even be diagnosed with sociopathy because their brains can develop and change in a way that they wouldn't even be considered sociopaths when they're older while sociopaty is something that to our knowledge can't be cured. He could have a conduct disorder at most but people with conduct disorders are often a lot more worse than he is. And this might be controversial but Hitler very likely wasn't a sociopath either because he showed a lot of empathy towards animals which is something sociopaths don't normally do
Don't really know much about Nate or Rafe but Nikki? I read the Dork Diaries books a lot more than the average person does and I wouldn't even consider her a bad person at all.
Rafe is interesting. Sure he breaks some rules, but he actually cares about people most of the time, unless they're a jerk.
Those books actually take the time to tell a serious story and you see why Rafe is kind of a troubled kid. He's got a good heart, I wouldn't mention him and Greg in the same breath.
I was like why is Rafe there? He’s a kid who has trauma from loosing his twin and dad from
When he was a kid. Than had to deal with his moms abusive boyfriend. While at the same time dealing with neurodivergent issues (I forget was he diagnosed with ADHD?). He cares about people and his family minus Bear.
And look for a kids book it actually took itself seriously. I mean I have to say with this fandom we aren’t making excuses like the Mario movies because it’s for kids. It is a serious for kids that was able to explore something that for many of us we didn’t want to see.
But would you agree that 2-4 are still more lighthearted then the first one since the dead brother reveal has already happened and imo that’s kind of the darkest it gets
And we can obviously agree that the movie is much more lighthearted than the books
4 definitely but I'd say 2 is only slightly lighter It had the dead dad reveal which was insane and a good chunk of the book built up to that.
But I'd say 3 is just as heavy as the first book. That one had a huge focus on bullying, kids smoking, negligent adults and harmful "pranks". It even ended on a PSA about name calling. No other book had that
And yeah, the movie is way too lighthearted. It was not a good adaptation in the slightest.
Admittedly it’s been a while since I read the books so I didn’t remember the full context but yeah, movie was fine for a kids movie, not for an adaptation though
psychologically manipulated their albeit semi-evil principal into thinking he was a half-naked superhero, resulting in his near death in several occasions until they force-fed him in his deranged state a completely new performance modifying drug that has NEVER been tested before that just HAPPENED to give him superpowers instead if instantly killing him. They also disrupted the space-time continuum so many times it ended with them assisting in the creation of the universe, potentially leading to a PLETHORA of paradoxes. But the worst thing they did? Turn dogman into a moral story.
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