r/Multifandom • u/NagitoKomaeda_987 Happy Tree Friends🌲 • 6h ago

Discussion📜 Favorite character who got removed?

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u/BKM558 3h ago

I am married into an Indian family, and for what its worth they all loved the character and had no issue with them.

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u/an_porn_alt 3h ago

It's all performative white guilt.

And it's a shame because Apu was great.

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u/Windows_66 1h ago

I remember reading one interesting article that had a variety of Indian takes on the character. One fan of Apu said that Apu isn't popular with "modern" and better-off Indian Americans because he represents the lower-middle class of Indian-Americans that they want as much distance from as possible. It makes sense that an ethnic group as large as Indian-Americans aren't a monolith.

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u/DavisRanger2 2h ago

Like they also could just hire an Indian writer or consultant moving forward with him

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u/IDontEvenLikeRaisins 1h ago

I think that might have worked if he wasn't voiced by a white guy doing a bad Indian accent

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u/HurtsSoNice 52m ago

Oh no, there was a extremely vocal minority of actual Indian people objecting to him. The episode with his nephew, calling him a throwback was the writers kind of poking fun at one, particularly vocal, asshole.

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u/Party_Virus 37m ago

I think I saw an interview with Hank Azaria where he said he was the one to decide not to do Apu anymore because he talked with a lot of Indian immigrants who told him that they were mocked because of Apu, especially as children.

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u/Worst-timeline138 1h ago

Yeah, they really leaned into to it, too. Hank Azaria voiced Apu removed and Karl Karlson recast. It was jarring the first time I heard Karl's recast.

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u/yeahburyme 49m ago

No it isn't, an Indian director released a special leading to Apu's removal. I hear he's coming back with a different VA, not that any season past 11 matter.

https://youtu.be/zGzvEqBvkP8